A lawyer for the disgraced R&B star has already been publicly lobbying the president for more than a year.
Singer R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on September 17, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.
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R. Kelly’s legal team is ramping up efforts to lobby President Donald Trump for clemency as the singer serves a decades-long prison sentence for sex crimes.
Case filings before the Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney show that the disgraced R&B star (Robert Sylvester Kelly) has a pending petition for commutation of his 31-year prison sentence for racketeering, sex trafficking, child pornography and enticing minors for sex. A presidential commutation would wipe Kelly’s sentence but leave his conviction intact, as opposed to a full pardon.
