R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in federal jail for his crimes of intercourse trafficking, after a hard-fought battle in court that by no means actually seemed prefer it was going to tip in Kelly’s favor. It has lately been revealed that issues received so dangerous for Kelly that his lawyer resorted to writing a private letter to the decide so as to persuade him to rethink his determination, days earlier than the sentence was introduced.
The letter revolved round a number of key areas of debate to assist body Kelly as considerably of a sufferer within the state of affairs.
The letter began by discussing Kelly’s well being and age (55) referring to the truth that Kelly has diabetes and different well being situations and was unlikely to even survive a 30-year jail sentence.
“Kelly is unlikely to see a jail sentence by way of till his eightieth birthday,” the letter learn.
Following that the letter talked about Kelly’s battle to develop into the profitable artist that he was and the way it’s related to the court docket’s determination.
“Kelly is broadly accepted as a musical genius with a rags-to-riches story. He’s thought of the best dwelling R & B singer and has earned a number of Grammy awards. He has written and produced music for celebrated artists like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. However his legendary standing, Robert Kelly is a person with a wealthy and sophisticated story that’s extremely related to this Court ‘s purpose of fashioning an applicable sentence for him. Kelly has been portrayed by the federal government and the media as a one-dimensional villain, undeserving of any measure of humanity or dignity.”
Subsequent, the letter talked about Kelly’s personal historical past of sexual abuse in his childhood and aimed to painting the singer as not a monster however simply human affected by the failures of society like anybody else.
The letter stated Kelly had a historical past of “extreme, extended childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence,” and therefore was, “not an evil monster however a posh (unquestionably flawed) human being who confronted overwhelming challenges in childhood that formed his grownup life.”
The letter additionally talked about how Kelly had grown up nearly fully illiterate, with no skill to learn and write which resulted in plenty of monetary exploitation, because of which the singer who was as soon as value $900 million, is now fully “destitute.”
The letter was clearly a hail mary try from the attorneys to attempt to save Kelly from his inevitable sentence but it surely did little if something to maneuver the decide and Kelly ended up receiving his 30-year sentence regardless.