Photo Credit: 20KBillboard reports that Meek Mill‘s lawyers have requested that the rapper be released from jail citing questions about the credibility of the police officer who testified during Meek’s original 2008 trial in which the then 19-year-old was convicted on drug and weapons charges.
The rapper’s attorneys filed the petition on Wednesday, according to Billboard, after the name of Officer Reginald Graham was mentioned in an investigative report by the Philadelphia Inquirer which claimed that the officer’s name appeared on a list maintained by the city’s District Attorney’s Office of police officers suspected of not being credible witnesses.
According to the Inquirer story, Graham, who retired from the force last year, testified at Meek’s 2008 trial that he had watched Meek sell what was later determined to be crack. He also testified that a confidential informant later make another purchase from Mill, information that was used to obtain a warrant for the search of a home where Meek ultimately was arrested.
Meek was sentenced to five months in jail in 2008 on drugs and weapons charges arising from that search, but has face a number of probation violation actions since and last year was sentenced to two to four years for violating his probation on the original charge.
According to Billboard, the new petition also cites sworn affidavits by two former Philly cops turned private investigators which the petition claims call into question the credibility of Graham’s original testimony.
Meek’s attorneys are a new trial on the original charges, if charges are not withdrawn or dismissed voluntarily.
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