Meek Mill could soon be released on bail, says DA

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Operation #FreeMeekMill may soon celebrate success.

The Philadelphia District Attorney's office said Wednesday it’s not against letting rapper Meek Mill out of prison on bail as he appeals his conviction - the reversal of which has a strong likelihood in the wake of claims that the star's arresting officer lied under oath, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Prosecutors reportedly said so in a motion filed in Common Pleas Court regarding Mill, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams.

"In the event (Mill's) conviction is reversed…the risk of an unjust or disproportionate sentence having been served exists," the motion reportedly read. "That risk increases as long as (Mill) remains in custody."

The news from the DA comes shortly after the rapper’s mother publicly pleaded with him to “step in” and help her son.

Mill, 30, was sentenced in November to two to four years locked up for violating probation stemming from a 2008 drug and weapon possession conviction, for which he was in prison for eight months.

But last month, an ex-Philadelphia cop alleged that Reggie Graham, Mill's arresting officer and the lone witness at his trial a decade ago, lied on the stand to get the rapper to the big house.

In a sworn affidavit, Jerold Gibson accused Graham of lying about the events surrounding Mill's arrest, according to the Inquirer.

Graham, who retired last year, was also reportedly named in a DA's list of officers to be avoided as witnesses due to their spotty reliability.

According to the Inquirer, the information about Graham's testimony has been neither rejected nor accepted by prosecutors, but is considered "new and important."

Mill's sentencing last fall sparked outrage among the public, including famous faces like JAY-Z and Rev. Al Sharpton, especially considering his prosecutors and probation officer recommended Judge Genece Brinkley not hand him jail time.

Brinkley - who Mill's lawyer claimed overstepped boundaries by visiting the rapper and suggesting Mill record specific music in the years since his initial arrest - denied his bail bid in December, citing the fact that he was a "danger to the community."

Mill's attorneys had previously requested she be removed from the case, as they believed she had made it personal and had assumed an "essentially prosecutorial" position.

“There’s brothers locked down that did nothing to be here but piss off people like Brinkley,” Mill told Rolling Stone in an interview published Wednesday.

“I want to speak on this system and what it does to black people - on both f--king sides of the fence.”

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