{"id":2444962,"date":"2019-06-04T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=844227"},"modified":"2019-06-04T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:59:54","slug":"meek-mill-gets-new-hearing-to-potentially-overturn-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/meek-mill-gets-new-hearing-to-potentially-overturn-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill Gets New Hearing to Potentially Overturn Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meek Mill<\/a> has been granted a new hearing that could lead to a court overturning his 2008 conviction on drug and gun charges.<\/p>\n

Per Philadelphia NBC affiliate WCAU<\/a>, the new hearing was approved after the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office successfully appealed the Pennsylvania Superior Court for a new trial and a new judge, to replace the controversial Judge Genece Brinkley. The rapper\u2019s new appellate court hearing will take place at the Superior Court of Pennsylvania July 16th.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to the oral argument before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and to, hopefully, having Meek\u2019s conviction vacated,\u201d said Meek Mill\u2019s lawyer, Jordan Siev, in a statement. \u201cIn light of the District Attorney\u2019s recent filing, where he supports the granting of a new trial to Meek and the recusal of Judge Brinkley, we hope to have this injustice rectified once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meek Mill and his legal team have been fighting for a new trial based on allegations that his arresting officer, Reginald Graham, gave false testimony (Graham is currently a \u201cDo Not Call\u201d to testify list set up by Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner). Graham was the only government witness to testify during Meek Mill\u2019s trial, and he claimed the rapper was selling drugs and posting a gun at police officers at the time of his arrest. Meek Mill denied the allegation and Graham\u2019s fellow officer, Jerold Gibson, later submitted<\/a> a sworn affidavit agreeing with Meek Mill\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

On top of the issues surrounding Graham, Meek Mill and his lawyers have been petitioning to have Judge Brinkley removed from the case (a previous effort was denied<\/a> last year). Judge Brinkley notably refused to void<\/a> Meek Mill\u2019s guilty verdict following the revelations about Graham, while the rapper has also accused<\/a> her of being overly harsh with jail time for technical violations and even making strange requests, like urging him to leave Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation and sign with a Philadelphia manager.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meek Mill has been granted a new hearing that could lead to a court overturning his 2008 conviction on drug and gun charges. Per Philadelphia NBC affiliate WCAU, the new hearing was approved after the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office successfully appealed the Pennsylvania Superior Court for a new trial and a new judge, to replace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 07:15:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}