R. Kelly says his life is at risk, asks for prison free time


A lawyer from R. Kelly is painting an image of corruption and deception between the ranks of the staff and the inmates of the federal prison office, claiming that there is a goal in his client's back that can be eliminated only if sent to the dishonest R&B singer home.

Beau toasty is asking Kelly to be placed in the temporary confinement at home while serving his sentences of sex trafficking of decades. He alleges that a trio of prison officials planned that the singer killed by a terminal member of the Aria Brotherhood that, except for a brief period when he escaped from the prison, was in federal custody since 1982.

The emergency motion for that temporary permit was presented on Tuesday in a federal court, and the documents were obtained and reviewed by the Times.

In addition to detailing the alleged assassination plot, the motion alleges that Kelly's private communications while they were in custody were “stolen” by him by people who worked with several prosecutors who took the information and used it against the singer in the trial. A witness never intended to testify against Kelly, says the motion, until one of the people who allegedly stole those communications approached her.

The motion alleges that three prison officials, including a wardrobe and a guardian assistant, conspired so that Kelly was killed by another inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine. Stine, a self -proclaimed “commissioner” of the Aria Brotherhood that joined the racist gang in prison, said in a statement that an official who was not one of the Guardians had previously ordered him to order multiple “assaults, powers and murders of prisoners.” That official approached him in February 2023 about ending Kelly's life.

Stine said he met that official during the 13 years he spent in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado, and that the alleged victims were attacked because they had been doing difficult things for the Bop. Stine said he had “ordered multiple assaults and murders” at the request of the official and in several federal prisons, and participated in some of the attacks.

The official told him in 2023 that there was a high profile inmate in North Carolina “whose high -price lawyers are going to expose a lot of harmful information that will damage other officers from the Prison and Superior Office” and that Stine wanted “to help eliminate the problem,” according to Stine.

After asking Stine if he knew who R. Kelly was, the statement said, the official told him that “Kelly is a rapist. He told me that Kelly raped white girls. He told me that Kelly was a slag. And he told me that Kelly was someone who wanted to go. It is R. Kelly who poses the threat to the bop.”

Stine said he was transferred to North Carolina in October 2023. He was in the medical unit since then until March 2025 when he finally ended in the Kelly unit, the judicial document said.

Stine, who says he has terminal cancer, told him that once he got into the Kelly unit he should “execute” the singer. He said they told him that he would be accused of the murder, but that evidence would be “poorly managed” and that he would not be convicted. Then, Stine said, he would be allowed to escape “while he was in transit, as he had done when he escaped previously, and could live his last months as a” free man. “Stine said he accepted the deal, but changed his mind after watching Kelly for a few weeks.

Instead of killing the singer, Stine said in his statement on May 19: “I told him the truth. I told him that they had sent me to kill him. I told him how and for whom. And I told him that his life was absolutely in danger.”

Stine said that the execution of a prison was nothing new to him, but killing Kelly “to hide the misconduct of [Bureau of Prisons] Government officers and officials is something that should not happen. … And it will happen to him if no one takes measures. “He said that time was” of the essence. ”

Kelly's lawyer, toasty, said in his motion that the “continuous imprisonment of his client while knowing that his life is in danger constitutes a cruel and unusual punishment,” a violation of his constitutional rights. The lawyer said that Kelly has already been attacked in prison by others.

In his motion, Brindley accused the United States prosecutor's office to conspire to knowing to use the information protected by the privilege of the lawyer-client, including the acquired information of one of Kelly's cell companions. That cell partner provided a statement that indicated that he had stolen privileged legal documents and delivered them to a BOP investigator who copied them and sent them so that prosecutors use them in Kelly's trials.

“This conspiracy involved the Prison Office and was apparently orchestrated by the United States prosecutor's office,” says the motion. “There is no room to speculate in some way that the office of the United States prosecutor did not know about the corrupt behavior of these cooperating people.”

According to the motion, Kelly received a call from an prison official in North Carolina, who warned him that the government knew that his lawyers had met with the cellmate who provided the statement.

“The official informed Mr. Kelly that he was in danger and that Mr. Kelly needed to be careful. Bop's official hinted that Mr. Kelly was not safe under the custody of the prison office,” says the motion. “The BOP official also reported that Mr. Kelly should avoid the dining room.”

The motion alleges that Kelly was already attacked by another inmate who, after the fact, wrote a letter saying that he had put him in this regard. He says that Stine approached Kelly and got clean about the alleged murder plot on April 11.

“On June 6, 2025, the defense learned that a second member of the Aria Brotherhood, which is in FCI Butner, had just approached [a BOP official] and aimed at carrying out the execution of Mr. Kelly and Mr. Stine, ”says the motion. The murder methods that were supposedly discussed included mixing poison in the food in the Chow Hall and in the commissioner.

“Time is now of the essence,” Brindley wrote. “It is with these impressive facts in mind that Mr. Kelly asks this court to an extraordinary legal remedy: his release from custody of the prison office.”

Admitting that Kelly was asking for an “extraordinary” remedy to his problem, the lawyer cited the accusations in his motion and offered a radical accusation of the federal prison system.

“The circumstances established above are as extraordinary as terrifying,” said I Brindley. “In jailed people have no repair for protection outside the guards who are hired to keep them safe. When the hierarchy under which the work of those guards has sanctioned and ordered the execution of an inmate, then there is no security for that inmate.

“Mr. Stine's statement shows that the murder of inmates at the request of prison officials is not new or unusual. It occurs regularly and without consequences. Therefore, the threat to Mr. Kelly's life continues every day that measures are not taken.”

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