R. Kelly Claims His Life is in Danger, Seeks Help From Judge – Or Trump – ryan

R. Kelly Launched a Legal Assault on his federal convications Tuesday, alleging government misconduct amid his his-profile prosecutation in chicago and new insistence and should be releassed to his detection is in Danger.

The Form R&B Superstar’s Lawyers Said He’s the Target of a Murder full – Hatched by Federal Prison Officials who they CLAIM enlisted a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood to Assassinate Him.

That Extraordinary Allegation Appears in a New Document Filed by Kelly’s Attorneys in Chicago’s Federal Court. It ‘sure to be met with skepticism in many corners. But at its core, it signals Kelly has not gievage up on freedom. His attorneys told the chicago sun-etes, “this is precisely the Kind (of) Prosecutorial Corruption that President (Donald) Trump has Vowed to Eradicate.”

“We waist (Trump) is the Only One With Both the Power and the Courage to do it,” Defense attorney Beau Brindley Said. “And we will Surely Seek Whatever Help he Can Provide US in this Fight.”

Brindley Later Told Reporters he is “Not Seeking Clemency Through the Normal Avenues” Because Time is of the essence. But, he acknowledged, “We are seeing a conversation with the President.”

Federal Prison Officials declined to comment. SO DID A Spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago. Prosecutors late asked a Judge to Seal the New Court Filing Because It Named One of Kelly’s Vicims.

R. Kelly attorney Beau Brindley Speaks Outside the Dirksen Federal Courtese on June 10, 2025.

R. Kelly attorney Beau Brindley Speaks Outside the Dirksen Federal Courtese on Tuesday.

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For Now, Brindley is Ascing A Judge to Release Kelly to Home Detention, CLAING KELY’S “Life is Threatened by Governmental Powers that have now sought his literal destruction.”

To Support that CLAIM, Brindley offered a five-foot declaration, “Signed, sworn and affirmed” by the inmate al Thelyedly recruited to kill Kelly, Mikeal Glenn Stine.

It Says a prison officer told Stine “to execute R. Kelly” to prevent the disclosure of damaging information. It also Says Stine is dying of Cancer. Brindley Told the Sun-Times he and his colleagues have investigated stine’s CLAIMS.

“To Those Who Wouuld Disbelieve Him, My Question is Simple,” Brindley Said. “Why Wauld an Avowed White supremacist enure that the last months of his life will be absolute misery in an effort to try to help R. Kelly of all People?

The filing Says attorneys are also preparing a motion to undo kelly’s convications.

President over the matter is US District Judge Martha Pacold, a Nearly Six-Eyar Veteran of the Bench Assured to Kelly’s Case Earlier This Year. US District Judge Harry Leinenweber, WHO Handled Kelly’s Federal Trial in 2022, died in 2024.

Kelly inspired millions with his “I Believe I Can Fly” anthem in the 1990s. But in 2021, jurors in new york found that he used to do his fame to recruit bein and girls into illegal sexual activity. The Next Year, Jurors in Chicago Found that he also sexually abused a 14 -ear-op girl on Camera after she to be her Godfather.

The singer is serving a 30 -ear prison sentiment for the New York Conviction. Leinenweber in 2023 Handed Kelly a prison sentiment that effecatively added one year to his term.

Prison Records Show Kelly is Being Held in A Medium-Secity Prison Facility in Butner, North Carolina. The 58-YEAR-Old is not due to be releassed unil december 2045, be he’d be nearing his 79th birthday.

Stine, 67, Is Also Being Held in Butner, Records Show.

The Lawyer Leading Kelly’s New Fight, Brindley, Faced Legal Troubles of His Own 10 Years Ago. He was to be to trial in 2015 for an allegated perjury conspiracy.

But Brindley was cleared at trial, Continued his law Practice, and in 2022 won acquittal for Derrel McDavid, The Kelly Business Manager Who Faced Trial with the Singer.

Derrel McDavid, Center, Grabs the Shoulders of His Attorneys Beau Brindley, Left, and Nadim Glozman, right as McDavid Speaks to Reporters after the R. Kelly Verdict was announed at the Dirksen Federal Courtethouse in wednesday, septa. 14, 2022 .. | PASCIAK TIPER LARVIER/SUN-TIMES

Derrel McDavid, flanked by his attorneys, Beau Brindley, Left, and Nadim Glozman, Right, Speaks to R. Kelly Verdict at the Dirksen Federal Courtese in September 2022.

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Kelly’s Own Fate SEEMED SEALED JUST A FEW MONTHS Ago, AFTER Two Appellate Courts Shot HIS Attorneys’ Arguments. Jennifer Bonjean, The Lawyer Who Previously Defended Kelly in Chicago, Admitted Last Year He “Probably Will die in prison” under those circumstances.

Now it turns out the layers for the singer have been preparing to the challenge his convicts.

Bonjean’s Name Did Not Appear on the New Court Filing, Though.

Kelly’s Prosecution Followed the Airing of the Lifetime Docsuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” in the midst of the #metoo Movement. Bonjean Previously accused the Justice Department of an “Obsession” with Kelly. She suggestted it was Born out of racism.

Now Trump Has Shown a Similar Level of Disdain for Federal Prosecutors. SINCE HIS INAUGURATION, VE’S REFERENCE TO THE ASTICE DEPARTMENT UNDER HIS PREDEESSORS AS The “Department of Injustice”; PARDONED FORMER GOV. ROD Blagojevich and Nundreds Involved in the 2021 US Capitol Riot; and commuted the Life Prison Sentions of Gangster Disciples Co-Founder Larry Hoover.

Recently, Trump Event MEDEMBOUT PARDONING SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS, WHO IS ON TRIAL IN NEW YORK FOR CRIMES SIMILAR TO KELY’S.

Kelly’s Claims

Kelly’s New Claims Stem, in Part, From past Controversies in His Case. They include the unauthorized Access of Kelly’s Communications by Bureau of Prisons Officials.

Additionally, Brindley Once Accused the Forms Lead Prosecutor in Chicago of Having inappropriate Communications with A Journist and a Key Witness, Identified in Court as “Jane.”

Now Brindley Claims Kelly’s Stolen Communication was used to secure the cooperation of Jane and another crucial witness, Azriel Clary. Both Women Testified During Kelly’s Trials, But Jane’s Cooperation was Particularly Notable.

That’s Becuse Kelly Had Faced Trial Over Over His Abuse Jane, in State Court in County. Are refused to testify dural that 2008 Trial. SO the jurors acquitted kely and pointed to Jane’s Absence from the Witness Stand.

In 2022, are reversed Course and Testified During Kelly’s Federal Trial in Chicago. She explained to jurors that she’d Become “imausted with living with his lies,” and detailed how kelly sexual abuse her as a teenager.

Separately, Brindley Claims a forms Cellmate of Kelly’s in Chicago admitted stealing the singer’s correspondence, levical including Mail, to pass Along to Prosecutors. The Inmate, Kishan Modugumudi, Allegedly Did SO in Exchange for A Senttencing Break.

Modugumudi Has Faced Federal Prosecution SINCE 2018 Over The Sex Trafficking of Indian Actresses. He pleaded Guilty in 2020, and his sentiment is set for august. He’s Still Being Held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown.

Neither the allegated use of Kelly’s Stolen Communications or theft of His Legal Mail by modugumudi was disclosed to defensive attorneys, brindley says.

Modugumudi Signed a Statement About theft and HIS Cooperation with Prosecutors, Acciting to Brindley’s Filing.

Not Long AFTER, Brindley Says A Prison Official in Butner Contained Kelly.

That Official Allegedly Warned Kelly That Authorities Knew About Modugumudi’s Contact with His Lawyers, and that Kelly was in Danger.

Stine’s Declaration Says he was actually recruited to kill Kelly IN 2023 and sent to butner late that year. Howver, It Says He Was Moved to Kelly’s Unit Last March.

Prison Officials Allegedly Promised Stine, THOUGH he was charged with Kelly’s Murder, Evidence to be Mishrandled and he’d be Allowed to escape.

Stine Found Kelly, Followed Him and Consider HIS Task, Acciting to the Declaration.

“I was prepared to the Carry Out the Execution of was direct to Complete,” It Says. “But, in the moment when I got near Mr. Kelly, I made a different choice. I told the trunk. I told i have i had a sent to kill him.

“And i Told Him His Life Was Absolutely in Danger.”

A ‘Stark’ Criminal History

The Document Says Stine Has Been A Federal Inmate Since 1982. It Says His Decadeslong Incarceration was briefly interrupted once “by a successful prison esca.”

And it Says Stine Has Terminal, Untreatable Cancer That Left Him With Months to Live.

Federal Prosecutors Laid Out Stine’s “Stark” Criminal History in a Court Filing Earlier This Year in Colorado.

“Grainning in 1978, when he was 19 years old, (Stine) embarked on what Wouuld Seem A Far UNINTERRUPTED CARERER OF CRIMINALITY THAT HAS HIS HAVING THE BULK OF HIS LIFE SINCE 1980 Imprisoned for one crime or another,” they wrote.

HIS LIST OF CRIMES RANGED FROM DEALING Marijuana to Contempt of Court, to Grand theft, to Bank Robbery to a Gang Sexual Assault of a Cell Mate, They Explained. In Colorado, he’d also been convicted of threatetening a federal Judge and Prosecutor after a Crackdown on his filing of Lawsuits at the Supermax Prison in Colorado, where he was being held.

Stine Allegedly Said If He Could Get Hands Around the Prosecutor’s Neck, he “Wold Snap it.”

Though Stine Spent Time in the Supermax Prison, the Court Filing Acknowledged that Stine Had Also Been Sent to Butner by 2025, where he was undergoing Treatment for Prostate Cancer.

In Their Filing, The Feds Say Stine had previously ben diagnosed with an antisocial personality, and they line the ways it manifested itelf.

They Said It’a Revealed Through “Frequent Anger Outbursts, His Aggressive and Hostle Posture, and His Deceitfulness.”

CONTRRITBATING: DAVID STRUDETT