{"id":131307,"date":"2017-11-15T01:37:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=131307"},"modified":"2017-11-15T01:37:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T06:37:35","slug":"meek-mills-lawyers-ask-judge-to-step-down-before-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/15\/meek-mills-lawyers-ask-judge-to-step-down-before-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill&#8217;s lawyers ask judge to step down before appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131313\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Meek-Mill-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131313\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Meek-Mill-1.jpg\" alt=\"A lawyer for Meek Mill is asking a Philadelphia judge to recuse herself before he appeals the rapper's sentence of two to four years in prison. (Photo: Meek Mill\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Meek-Mill-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Meek-Mill-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Meek-Mill-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Meek-Mill-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lawyer for Meek Mill is asking a Philadelphia judge to recuse herself before he appeals the rapper&#8217;s sentence of two to four years in prison. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeekMill\/photos\/a.637800599592162.1073741826.199361046769455\/975366805835538\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeekMill\/\">Meek Mill\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 A lawyer for Meek Mill is asking a Philadelphia judge to recuse herself before he appeals the rapper&#8217;s sentence of two to four years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley sentenced Mill last week for violating probation in a nearly decade-old gun and drug case.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, his lawyers asked Brinkley to step down, saying she stepped out of her judicial bounds numerous times. Among the examples cited was the judge suggesting Mill record a version of the Boyz II Men song \u201cOn Bended Knee\u201d and specifically mention the judge in it. The lawyer says after Mill declined, the judge replied: \u201cSuit yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, former Philadelphia 76er Julius Erving, Eagles player Malcolm Jenkins and rapper Rick Ross were among hundreds of people gathered to protest Mill&#8217;s imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 A lawyer for Meek Mill is asking a Philadelphia judge to recuse herself before he appeals the rapper&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[33224,4202,33222,33223],"class_list":["post-131307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-genece-brinkley","tag-lawyer","tag-meek-mill","tag-philadelphia-judge","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}