R. Kelly made a second emergency plea to the New York court to release him from prison to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The singer’s latest bid comes 10 days after the NY Federal Court shot down his previous request to be released pending trial.U.S.
District Judge Anne Donnelly denied Kelly’s initial release request because at that time, there were “no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the MCC in Chicago.” Since her ruling, however, Kelly’s attorneys say in their emergency request filed Thursday (April 16) that the pandemic has now spread to the Chicago jail where the singer is being housed.Kelly is awaiting trial in New York on charges of racketeering, transportation to engage in illegal sexual activity, and coercion of a minor to.
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