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.”
The Supreme Court directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him to immediately issue an order releasing him on unsecured bail.
Evidently the SC of PA is not messing around.
A team of lawyers and public relations consultants had waged an all-out battle to get him freed on bail.
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.
This sounds a little more complicated than Mill popping a wheelie on the set of a video. A quick Google search found this handy timeline.
After reading it, how the hell can the same judge constantly bar Mill from performing AND claim to be helping his career? I am total confused. BTW, the judge ordered him NOT to perform in 2017. He cancels a date at Syracuse, the students flood her office with calls BECAUSE HE CANCELLED THE SHOW and two days later she sentences him to jail for…wait for it… VIOLATING HIS PAROLE. This seems VERY shady.
If anyone thinks something needs to be done, you need to read what Black Lives Matter posted long ago. This is the type of abuse they were protesting.
Matters helped along greatly by the fact that the Philadelphia DA’s office supported both a new trial and bail. Pleased thus far with the results of electing Larry Krasner.
Nope, no euphemism. There was a street being closed off for the set of his new music video. He decided to pop a wheelie (drive his motorcycle on its rear wheel). He was issued a ticket, because although the street was being closed his permission to use the street didn’t start for another 15-20 minutes . The judge then decided this was a parole violation.
So…
Black man shows up to work 15 minutes early, gets 5 months in prison for his trouble.
Got it.
How long is the sentence of the idiot judge who sent him to jail?