Almost a week later R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison for violating federal sex trafficking laws, the singer fell out of favor remains under suicide surveillance , despite arguments from his legal team that his constitutional rights have been violated. Shortly after she was placed under suicide surveillance, Kelly filed a lawsuit demanding damages and immediate removal from suicide surveillance.
July 1 law and crime reports that R. Kelly (real name Robert Sylvester Kelly) filed a lawsuit in Bivens, alleging federal officials violating a person’s civil liberties, against Regional Bureau of Prisons officer Heriberto H. Tellez, director of the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, the federal government and other MDC officials. He also sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act, arguing that the suicide guard’s determination was made without committing suicide and resulted in severe mental distress.
In the eight-page federal lawsuit, R. Kelly requests the removal of the suicide guard along with “compensatory damages for any emotional distress, humiliation, pain and suffering and other damages for the amount determined at the trial.
R. Kelly’s attorney Jennifer Bonjean has spoken out against her client’s probation following her sentencing, which came nine months after he was found guilty accused of extortion and violation of the Mann Act. Bonjean said he was not suicidal and the decision was made for “purely punitive reasons”. In a note filed in addition to Kelly’s lawsuit for Law & Crime, Bonjean said he was told that the reasons she was on “psychological alert” were multiple and included “age, crime, publicity and conviction.” He said in the note:
This explanation suggests that Mr. Kelly’s reasons for being put under suicide control have nothing to do with him as an individual or even if he is actually at risk for suicide.
However, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York filed a response to the lawsuit, stating that R. Kelly’s request to be removed from suicide surveillance should be rejected and that his position was a result of the person conducted evaluation. after. he returned to MDC after being sentenced to 30 years. The government said in its response:
Based on a clinical evaluation and in accordance with the Suicide Prevention Policy of the Bureau of Prisons, the applicant remains under observation for his own safety. The plaintiff provides no exceptional authority that would allow this court to take the unprecedented step of ordering the BOP to remove a detainee from suicide surveillance.
We will have to see what will come of this trial if it goes to trial. R. Kelly will also be tried in Chicago for federal obstruction and child pornography, and will also face state charges in Illinois and Minnesota.
His 30-year prison sentence came after decades of sexual abuse allegations. In 1994, R. Kelly illegally married 15-year-old singer Aaliyah Haughton, who died in 2001. He was arrested in 2002 on 21 charges of child pornography, but was eventually acquitted. In 2017 he dealt with allegations of brainwashing of women which was followed by trial for sexual assault in 2018. In 2019 docuseries for life Survived R. Kelly (now available for netflix subscribers ) pointed out the allegations and Kelly was arrested soon after.
Source: Cinemablend
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