A Judge has shot down a motion filed by R. Kelly’s attorneys requesting that he serve the remainder of his 30-year prison sentence on home detention.
His attorney requested home detention after claiming that officials in the prison system were trying to end his life.
Last week, Kelly was reportedly hospitalized for an overdose of medication administered by prison officials. His team says that another inmate was paid to kill the disgraced singer.
U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold did not approve Kelly’s motion, noting that she “lacks jurisdiction over this matter.”
Kelly is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence in North Carolina after he was convicted in federal court in 2021 of racketeering and violating the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law, including having sex with underage girls.
The singer is now desperately trying to get a pardon from President Donald Trump.
“We are engaged in conversations with multiple persons close to the White House and to President Trump,” a statement from his attorneys reads. “My client does not have the luxury to wait for vindication from the Courts that will follow the exposure of the corruption at the heart of his prosecutions.”