Another one that I doubt anyone would shed a tear like Diddy
Kelly's attorneys have filed several motions in court alleging assassination attempts, which prosecutors have called "deeply unserious."
R. Kelly was hospitalized after what his lawyer called an assassination attempt, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was taken to Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday after prison officials "administered an overdose of his medication," according to court documents filed by his attorney.
The disgraced musician was serving time at the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner after his 2021 conviction of racketeering and sex trafficking.
"Mr. Kelly’s life is in danger, and that danger is coming from Bureau of Prisons officials and their actions," one of the court filings reads. "Mr. Kelly needs this Court’s intervention. His life actually depends on it."
The allegations were the latest in a slew of similar claims by his defense team that prison officials are trying to kill Kelly, 58, according to court documents filed within the last week.
Kelly’s attorney Beau Brindley confirmed with media outlets last week that he is trying to seek a presidential pardon for his client.
Brindley did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.
Nicole Blank Becker, another of Kelly’s lawyers, said that she spoke with Kelly on Monday and that he remains in solitary confinement and requires extensive medical treatment.
“What is happening right now with him is insane,” she said. “I hope that this really results in someone, somewhere, somehow getting ahold of him today and getting him back in the hospital.”
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that "for privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not discuss the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including medical and health-related issues.”
"Additionally, the Bureau of Prisons does not comment on pending litigation or matters that are the subject of legal proceedings," the spokesperson added.
Kelly's team filed a motion last week accusing the Bureau of Prisons of soliciting another inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine, to kill Kelly while he was in custody at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, this spring.
The court document says BOP officials offered Stine, who is alleged to be a member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang and has a terminal cancer diagnosis, an opportunity "to live out the last of those months as a free man" in exchange for killing Kelly.
Instead, the court documents allege, Stine told Kelly "the truth" and "that his life was absolutely in danger."
Brindley asked the court to move Kelly to home detention.
The next day, Kelly's attorneys filed supplemental material saying he was moved to solitary confinement and denied speaking with his attorney.
"And what’s the reason? Because he was the victim of a murder threat," the court document says. "That makes no sense. He is being housed in the same solitary confinement conditions as inmates who commit the acts of prison violence that he fears."
Brindley said he would contact the Trump administration to request a pardon.
"President Trump has been fighting against this kind of criminal weaponization of the DOJ against public figures since he took office,” Brindley told USA Today. “And we will ask him to now stand up with us as we advance his fight and as our client fears that he might be killed to cover up the corruption that we seek to expose."
Kelly's attorneys filed a third motion Friday to move Kelly to home detention, and the government responded Monday.
In a 69-page filing, prosecutors called Kelly's request "deeply unserious and theatrical" and "repugnant to the sentence that this Court imposed for deeply disturbing offenses."
Kelly's attorney filed additional motions Monday and Tuesday detailing his hospitalization.
The court filings allege that on Friday, Kelly "fell to the ground" after he felt "faint" and saw "black spots." The documents say that while Kelly was in an ambulance, "he heard one of the prison officers with him state: 'This is going to open a whole new can of worms.'"
At the hospital, Kelly learned he had been "administered an overdose quantity of his medications that threatened his life," according to the court filings.
The filings also alleged that doctors found blood clots in Kelly's legs and lungs. They accused prison officials of removing him from the hospital and putting him back in solitary confinement, despite the hospital's request that he be kept under medical care for seven days and undergo surgery to remove the clots.
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Kelly's attorneys have filed several motions in court alleging assassination attempts, which prosecutors have called "deeply unserious."
R. Kelly was hospitalized after what his lawyer called an assassination attempt, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was taken to Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday after prison officials "administered an overdose of his medication," according to court documents filed by his attorney.
The disgraced musician was serving time at the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner after his 2021 conviction of racketeering and sex trafficking.
"Mr. Kelly’s life is in danger, and that danger is coming from Bureau of Prisons officials and their actions," one of the court filings reads. "Mr. Kelly needs this Court’s intervention. His life actually depends on it."
The allegations were the latest in a slew of similar claims by his defense team that prison officials are trying to kill Kelly, 58, according to court documents filed within the last week.
Kelly’s attorney Beau Brindley confirmed with media outlets last week that he is trying to seek a presidential pardon for his client.
Brindley did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.
Nicole Blank Becker, another of Kelly’s lawyers, said that she spoke with Kelly on Monday and that he remains in solitary confinement and requires extensive medical treatment.
“What is happening right now with him is insane,” she said. “I hope that this really results in someone, somewhere, somehow getting ahold of him today and getting him back in the hospital.”
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that "for privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not discuss the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including medical and health-related issues.”
"Additionally, the Bureau of Prisons does not comment on pending litigation or matters that are the subject of legal proceedings," the spokesperson added.
Kelly's team filed a motion last week accusing the Bureau of Prisons of soliciting another inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine, to kill Kelly while he was in custody at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, this spring.
The court document says BOP officials offered Stine, who is alleged to be a member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang and has a terminal cancer diagnosis, an opportunity "to live out the last of those months as a free man" in exchange for killing Kelly.
Instead, the court documents allege, Stine told Kelly "the truth" and "that his life was absolutely in danger."
Brindley asked the court to move Kelly to home detention.
The next day, Kelly's attorneys filed supplemental material saying he was moved to solitary confinement and denied speaking with his attorney.
"And what’s the reason? Because he was the victim of a murder threat," the court document says. "That makes no sense. He is being housed in the same solitary confinement conditions as inmates who commit the acts of prison violence that he fears."
Brindley said he would contact the Trump administration to request a pardon.
"President Trump has been fighting against this kind of criminal weaponization of the DOJ against public figures since he took office,” Brindley told USA Today. “And we will ask him to now stand up with us as we advance his fight and as our client fears that he might be killed to cover up the corruption that we seek to expose."
Kelly's attorneys filed a third motion Friday to move Kelly to home detention, and the government responded Monday.
In a 69-page filing, prosecutors called Kelly's request "deeply unserious and theatrical" and "repugnant to the sentence that this Court imposed for deeply disturbing offenses."
Kelly's attorney filed additional motions Monday and Tuesday detailing his hospitalization.
The court filings allege that on Friday, Kelly "fell to the ground" after he felt "faint" and saw "black spots." The documents say that while Kelly was in an ambulance, "he heard one of the prison officers with him state: 'This is going to open a whole new can of worms.'"
At the hospital, Kelly learned he had been "administered an overdose quantity of his medications that threatened his life," according to the court filings.
The filings also alleged that doctors found blood clots in Kelly's legs and lungs. They accused prison officials of removing him from the hospital and putting him back in solitary confinement, despite the hospital's request that he be kept under medical care for seven days and undergo surgery to remove the clots.
R. Kelly was hospitalized in what lawyers call an ongoing prison assassination plot
Kelly's attorneys have filed several motions in court alleging assassination attempts, which prosecutors have called "deeply unserious."
