R. Kelly is sitting in “the hole” at a North Carolina federal prison while his lawyers push claims of an assassination plot, a suspicious overdose and government misconduct in his bid for a new trial. Kelly is serving a 30-year federal sentence from his New York racketeering and sex trafficking conviction, along with a separate 20-year Chicago sentence for child pornography and enticement, most of which runs at the same time. He is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butn