Overview

• U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold rejected the emergency motion because R. Kelly is incarcerated at FCI Butner, outside her judicial district.
• Kelly’s attorneys alleged that prison officials recruited an Aryan Brotherhood member to kill him to silence claims of mail tampering and witness intimidation.
• Legal filings contend that prison staff administered a potentially life-threatening overdose of Kelly’s medication and later removed him from hospital care despite blood clots in his legs and lungs.
• Kelly remains in solitary confinement as he serves a concurrent 30-year sentence for racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography convictions.
• His legal team plans to seek presidential intervention from President Trump and may pursue relief in other districts, including Brooklyn where his original conviction was handed down.