According to Cosby’s representative Andrew Wyatt, the 84-year-old believes that Kelly “was screwed” and “wasn’t going to catch a break” in his federal trial that ended Sept. 27. A Brooklyn jury found the singer guilty on all nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking. Cosby was released from prison on a procedural technicality in July 2021 after his own conviction of sexual assault and accusations made by more than 50 women. The since disgraced actor was convicted in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. He served more than two years of a three-to-10-year sentence at a Philadelphia-area state prison.

“The deck was stacked against Robert. His constitutional rights were grossly abused. I don’t know anywhere but in this country in the United States that a documentary (Surviving R. Kelly) can bring criminal charges against someone,” Wyatt stated. According to Wyatt, Kelly’s legal defense team failed to fight “hard for him” and didn’t “humanize” the fallen RB icon. “He also didn’t have the resources and means, he should have asked for support from the court. He would have gotten better representation,” Wyatt continued.

In June 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Cosby’s conviction after finding that a "non-prosecution agreement" had been made with a previous prosecutor on the case, which should have prevented him from ever being charged in the first place. Wyatt said racism was a factor in Kelly’s conviction, according to TMZ, adding that he predicted that an appeals court will overturn the decision.