Meek Mill Pleads Guilty

Meek Mill’s long legal battle is finally over. Meek Mill reached an agreement with prosecutors to drop the charges against him in a 2007 case. The rapper pled guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge and gotten all other charges against him dropped. The judge accepted Mill’s guilty plea on Tuesday morning.

“I know this has been a long road for you and hopefully this will be the end of it,” Judge Leon Tucker told the rapper.

At a rally outside, Mill briefly spoke to supporters of the cause outside the Criminal Justice Center following his hearing.

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(VIDEO REPOST from @president.odaat ) Rapper #MeekMill has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge, ending his criminal case. All other charges have been dropped and he will not spend any more time in prison. The charges stem from a 2007 case that's kept him under court supervision for more than a decade. The 32-year-old spent about two years in prison over a drug and gun conviction that was overturned this year because of credibility concerns about the arresting officer. The charges stem from a 2007 case that's kept him under court supervision for more than a decade. The 32-year-old spent about two years in prison over a drug and gun conviction that was overturned this year because of credibility concerns about the arresting officer. He's now working with #JayZ and others on a campaign to promote criminal justice reform. Testimony from the 2008 trial shows the rap star, born Robert Williams, acknowledged having a gun but denied pointing it at police or selling drugs. The Pennsylvania Superior Court overturned the felony conviction last month and removed the city judge who sent Williams back to prison over minor probation violations.

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“Free Meek helped me get to this position,” Mill said. “Meek freed, I’m not on probation no more. Thank you, I appreciate that a lot. And I just wanted to come up here myself and thank all the supporters because I know y’all probably got family members in jail or people going through the same thing as me and I will continue to do what I do with the reform movement and help the people who helped me.”

Meek Mill’s representatives sent the following from the rapper:

I’m extremely grateful that my long legal battle is finally behind me and I appreciate that it has sparked a much-needed discussion about probation reform and the inequalities that exist within our two Americas. I have always told the truth—that as a teenager, who saw many around me die from senseless gun violence, I carried a gun for protection. I take responsibility for that and—in conjunction with my work on the REFORM Alliance—I’ll continue to use my platform to make communities safer and reform our criminal justice system. I want to express my gratitude to all of my supporters, especially JAY-Z, Desiree Perez, Michael Rubin, my legal team, and everyone else who stood by me throughout the years. It’s important that we now channel our energy into helping the millions that are unjustly trapped in our criminal justice system.

Last month, Meek Mill‘s 2008 conviction in a drug and gun case was overturned by the Pennsylvania appeals court. Since the conviction, Meek was on probation for over a decade and it has landed the rapper in prison multiple times over the last decade.

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