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On Tuesday, June 10, R. Kelly's lawyers filed an emergency motion seeking his immediate release from prison. As reviewed by Variety, the motion further claimed that Kelly's life was in danger inside the prison. For the unversed, Kelly had been serving his 30-year sentence for several sex crimes.
According to the attorneys, they had sufficient evidence portraying that officials had solicited an inmate to kill R. Kelly. The rapper is currently at a federal penitentiary in North Carolina, according to Variety. The legal team presented an apparently sworn statement by Mikeal Glenn Stine, a terminally ill inmate of the same prison.
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Stine had claimed that officials promised him freedom in his final days in exchange for the rapper's life. Stine further claimed that the officials told him that Kelly's legal team was about to expose some damaging information against the officials.
Mikeal Glenn Stine, who reportedly was diagnosed with terminal cancer, then claimed that, according to the plan told to him, he would be charged with Kelly's murder once he was done with it. However, he was told that the evidence would be mishandled and thus, no conviction would take place.
According to The Express Tribune, another inmate named David Keith Harris claimed that he was instructed by prison officials to poison the rapper. Both Harris and Stine were apparently up for taking polygraph tests to further corroborate their claims.
Mikeal Glenn Stine was reportedly ready to murder R. Kelly, but then had a change of heart
According to reports by Variety, Mikeal Glenn Stine had arrived at Kelly's unit in March 2025. Stine, who had been a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, a neo-nazi prison gang was reportedly ready to kill R. Kelly. He, however, apparently had a change of heart and ended up exposing the alleged plan by the prison officials to the singer.
Kelly's legal team further claimed that they got information that another member from the same prison gang had been instructed to murder both R. Kelly as well as Mikeal Glenn Stine. According to the team, the singer wasn't safe in jail since many members belonged to the Aryan Brotherhood around him.
The emergency motion read:
"More A.B. members are accumulating at his facility. More than one has already been approached about carrying out his murder. One of them will surely do what Mr. Stine has not, thereby burying the truth about what happened in this case along with Robert Kelly."
Apart from the aforementioned allegations, the motion had also accused the prison officials and federal prosecutors of violating Kelly's constitutional rights. A prison staff member leaked private legal communications to a government informant. This was allegedly used to influence a witness's testimony.
R. Kelly was initially convicted in 2021 on charges including violating the Mann Act and racketeering that involved the sexual exploitation of children. He then got 30 years behind bars. Later, in 2023, the singer was separately sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex crimes.
