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R. Kelly Files for Clemency, Asks President Trump to Commute 30-Year Sentence

R. Kelly has filed for clemency with the Department of Justice (DOJ). The disgraced rapper’s lawyer, Beau B. Brindley, told TMZ on Wednesday, July 15, that he worked with Kelly, 59, on the petition to commute his combined 30-year sentence, adding that the pair submitted the necessary paperwork one day prior to the DOJ’s Office of the Pardon Attorney. Kelly is seeking to commute his combined 30-year sentence stemming from his two convictions. He is currently behind bars at FCI Butner medium security prison in Butler, North Carolina, after he was found guilty of federal racke...