R&B singer R Kelly has formally requested US president Donald Trump to reduce his 31-year prison sentence, submitting a request for government clemency to the Department of Justice.
The enchantment, revealed in newly launched court docket data from the workplace of the pardon lawyer, seeks a commutation of Kelly’s sentence moderately than a full pardon. The request is presently listed as pending and can endure evaluate as a part of the federal clemency course of.
Kelly, whose full identify is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is serving his sentence at a federal prison in North Carolina after being convicted in two separate instances involving racketeering, intercourse trafficking, baby enticement and the manufacturing of kid sexual abuse materials.
In 2021, the 59-year-old singer was discovered responsible of operating a legal enterprise that prosecutors stated recruited ladies and underage ladies for sexual exploitation and pornography. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
A 12 months later, Kelly was convicted on further expenses associated to baby sexual abuse pictures and baby enticement, receiving an additional 20-year sentence. The sentences are being served principally on the similar time, with one further 12 months added, bringing his whole prison time period to 31 years. He is presently not anticipated to be eligible for launch till January 2046.
Kelly’s lawyer, Beau Brindley, has spent more than a year publicly urging Trump to intervene. In 2025, Brindley filed an emergency request searching for Kelly’s launch to residence detention, claiming the singer confronted a menace to his life whereas incarcerated.
The lawyer alleged that three prison officers had been concerned in a plot for a terminally sick inmate to hurt Kelly in change for an earlier launch. The request was denied by the court docket.
Brindley has continued to argue that Kelly’s sentence needs to be reduced, whereas Kelly has constantly denied the allegations towards him and maintained his innocence.
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