PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court has ordered a judge to free rapper Meek Mill on bail while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions.
The Supreme Court directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him to immediately issue an order releasing him on unsecured bail.
Mill was sentenced in November to 2-4 years in prison for violating probation.
Mill issued a statement saying his five months in jail have been “a nightmare” and thanking all his supporters.
A team of lawyers and public relations consultants had waged an all-out battle to get him freed on bail.
Prosecutors say they believe Mill should get a new trial because of questions raised about the credibility of his arresting officer.
I never heard of Meek Mill before, but, I notice that you can mix up the letters of his name to spell “me kill 'em.”
Evidently the SC of PA is not messing around.
All the justice money can buy.
I don’t know anything about the case, but it sounds like the PA SC is correcting an error made by a lower court. An error that would have persisted if the defendant didn’t happen to have the means to hire a team of lawyers and PR consultants. And he still spent 5 months in jail, possibly wrongly.
Just think a white guy from rural America can jump a white house fence, threaten a school, and shoot up a waffle house (while naked) killing 4 and get bail (until the public outcry).
A black man from urban America who committed a crime at age 18, can be jailed at age 29 for popping a wheelie on the set of his music video because he is still on PAROLE (over a decade later) and couldn’t get bail even though he is a successful millionaire.
His parole violation was that he popped a wheelie?
Unless “wheelie” is a euphemism for a controlled substance, I don’t get it.