R. Kelly faces 10 years to life in prison when he’s sentenced in May.
R&B singer R. Kelly has contracted COVID-19 while awaiting sentencing in a Brooklyn federal jail for his racketeering conviction, his lawyer revealed in a court filing early Tuesday.
Bonjean, a New York-based attorney whose legal career began in Chicago, also noted that Kelly had decided to part ways with his original trial team, but that formal withdrawals were still pending. As of Monday, 39 detainees at the facility were positive for the virus, with more than 600 listed as recovered, according to U.S. Bureau of Prisons statistics. One inmate death there had been attributed to COVID-19.Kelly’s previous legal team had mounted several unsuccessful attempts to have him released on bond due to the threat of coronavirus both at the Brooklyn facility as well as at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago where he’d previously been held.
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