{"id":156602,"date":"2018-03-14T04:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156602"},"modified":"2018-03-14T04:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:36:24","slug":"meek-mills-mother-asks-district-attorney-to-help-her-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/14\/meek-mills-mother-asks-district-attorney-to-help-her-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill&#8217;s mother asks district attorney to help her son"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_156603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156603\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10414447_877181288987424_3162535422855503448_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156603\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10414447_877181288987424_3162535422855503448_n.jpg\" alt=\"File Photo (Meek Mill\/Facebook)\" width=\"392\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10414447_877181288987424_3162535422855503448_n.jpg 392w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10414447_877181288987424_3162535422855503448_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/10414447_877181288987424_3162535422855503448_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeekMill\/\">Meek Mill\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The mother of jailed rapper Meek Mill is calling on Philadelphia&#8217;s district attorney to \u201cstep in\u201d and help her son.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the plea by Kathy Williams came during a brief news conference Tuesday before the start of a criminal justice panel at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Williams strongly criticized the judge who sentenced Mill to two to four years in prison last fall for violating probation on a roughly decade-old gun and drug case. An appeals court in December denied a request to free the 30-year-old musician on bail.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Mill previously have asked that the district attorney&#8217;s office intervene in the case.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for District Attorney Larry Krasner declined to comment on the request.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The mother of jailed rapper Meek Mill is calling on Philadelphia&#8217;s district attorney to \u201cstep in\u201d and help &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":156603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48267,33222],"class_list":["post-156602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-kathy-williams","tag-meek-mill","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156602","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=156602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}