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R. Kelly’s Attorneys File for Immediate Release From Custody, Alleging Officials Solicited Inmate to Murder Him


R. Kelly's attorneys have filed for an emergency motion for his release from prison, claiming that officials solicited an inmate to murder him.

R. Kelly’s legal team has filed an emergency motion seeking his immediate release from federal custody to home detention, claiming that his life is in danger and accusing the government of misconduct. In Tuesday’s filing, reviewed by Variety, Kelly’s attorneys claim that they have explicit evidence that officials solicited an inmate to murder him while in custody at a federal penitentiary in North Carolina, where he’s serving a 30-year sentence. His counsel provided a sworn declaration from Mikeal Glenn Stine, a terminally ill inmate, who stated that officials offered him freedom in his final days in exchange for Kelly’s murder.

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