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FILE - In this April 2, 2019, file photo, rapper Meek Mill speaks at a gathering in Philadelphia to push for drastic changes to Pennsylvania's probation system. Philadelphia's District Attorney's office wants a new trial with a new judge for rapper Meek Mill. Larry Krasner submitted the brief Wednesday, May 22, 2019. He said former Judge Genece Brinkley's court &quot;abused its discretion&quot; after sentencing Mill in 2017 to two to four years in prison for violating an old gun charge. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

District attorney says Meek Mill should get new trial, judge

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FILE – In this Nov. 6, 2017, file photo, rapper Meek Mill arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. Attorneys for Mill are asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to remove a Philadelphia judge from his case days after she denied his new trial request. In a filing late Wednesday, June 27, 2018, Mill’s attorneys say Judge Genece Brinkley’s actions in court showed she had an opinion before hearing Mill’s request. It also says by requiring a hearing and strenuously cross-examining a witness, she strayed from how other judges had treated similar requests. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Meek Mill’s attorneys resume effort to get judge removed

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FILE – In this Nov. 6, 2017, file photo, rapper Meek Mill arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia judge has denied Mill’s petition for a new trial in his decade-old drug and gun convictions despite support for the request by the district attorney’s office. The rapper’s attorneys cited credibility issues with a police officer who testified in his case. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Judge denies rapper Meek Mill’s request for new trial

By CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 10, 2018 file photo, rapper Meek Mill performs at HOT 97 Summer Jam 2018 in East Rutherford, N.J. Pennsylvania's highest court won't remove a judge from Meek Mill's long-running criminal case, but one justice says the rapper can raise the issue again after a hearing next week.Three judges denied Mill's request Tuesday to replace Philadelphia Judge Genece Brinkley, and three supported it. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)

State Supreme Court won’t remove judge from Meek Mill’s case

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FILE – In this Nov. 6, 2017, file photo, rapper Meek Mill arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. Meek Mill's lawyers have asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to remove Philadelphia Judge Genece Brinkley from his case, blasting her conduct as unprofessional, and replace her with another judge, as part of a Friday, June 1, 2018, court filing. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Meek Mill’s lawyers ask court to remove judge from his case

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

Rapper Meek Mill's son Papi holds a sign as protesters demonstrate in front of a courthouse during a hearing for Meek Mill, Monday April 16, 2018 in Philadelphia. The city's district attorney says Mill's convictions should be vacated and he should have a new trial. The announcement came during a hearing on Monday, but a judge is still refusing to release Mill on bail. Philadelphia-born Mill was sentenced in November 2017 to two to four years in prison for violating probation on a roughly decade-old gun and drug case.(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Prosecutor wants Meek Mill’s drug and gun convictions tossed

By NATALIE POMPILIO - Associated Press

FILE – In this Nov. 6, 2017, file photo, rapper Meek Mill arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Genece Brinkley ruled Thursday, March 29, 2018, that Mill should remain behind bars while appealing a 2- to 4-year prison sentence for violating probation, saying the rapper's drug use, arrests and other issues while under supervision merited the jail time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Meek Mill’s bid for release while he appeals turned down

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This Nov. 6, 2017, file photo shows Rapper Meek Mill arriving at the criminal justice center in Philadelphia.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Judge in Meek Mill case hires attorney, threatens lawsuit

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People walk past a placard posted on a newsstand with a message of support for imprisoned rapper Meek Mill, in Philadelphia, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Mill’s imprisonment on a probation violation has set off a flurry of legal appeals, criticism of the criminal justice system, newspaper opinion pieces, rallies, billboards and bus ads. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Timeline: The saga of Meek Mill and how he ended up in jail

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2017 file photo rapper Meek Mill arrives at the criminal justice center in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia judge has sentenced rapper Mill to two to four years in state prison for violating probation in a nearly decade-old gun and drug case. Mill’s imprisonment on a probation violation has set off a flurry of legal appeals, criticism of the criminal justice system, newspaper opinion pieces, rallies, billboards and bus ads. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Timeline: The saga of Meek Mill and how he ended up in jail

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

This November 2017 photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shows rapper Meek Mill, whose real name is Robert Williams, sentenced to serve two to four years in prison for violating probation in a nearly decade-old gun and drug case. A lawyer for Meek Mill asked Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley to recuse herself from the case Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, before the rapper appeals his prison sentence. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections via AP)

Lawyers for Meek Mill trying to get him released from prison

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Judge ignores recommendation, sends Meek Mill to prison

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press