Rapper Meek Mill's petition for a new trial after the 2008 conviction denied by the judge

"We are not at all surprised by the decision of Judge Brinkley today, despite the District Attorney's Office's agreement on the need for a new trial and the granting of new Trial of other identically placed defendants, Judge Brinkley On the 18th, she had already decided the case, "said Joe's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, in a statement.

He added that he planned to bring the case to a higher court.

Mill, 31, whose legal name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, has been out of jail since April, when the Philadelphia Supreme Court ordered him released on bail. Mr. Mill served five months after Mr. Brinkley sentenced him to a two-to-four-year probation period in November 2017 for a breach of probation.

She said her decision to sentence rapper "Maybach Curtains" came after giving her several chances: In 2017, Mill was arrested twice, once for allegedly blowing up a wheelie on a motorcycle in New York City, then for an altercation at a Missouri airport. While both charges were dismissed, he was always found in technical violation of his probation.

Brinkley also cited a failed drug test and an unapproved trip after the 2008 gun and drugs case for his sentencing decision.

In an interview in May, Mill told NBC News' Lester Holt that the "unapproved trip" is to visit his son in New Jersey and return him to his home in New York.

The Philadelphia prosecutor's office said it was supporting a new trial for Mill after one of the officers who arrested him, Reginald Graham, landed on a list of suspected officers. to lie in court and to supervise witnesses. Another former officer who took part in Mill's arrest said Graham had lied under oath during the rapper's initial trial, according to an affidavit of the court.

Graham could not be reached to comment on the allegations.

In April, a judge dismissed the convictions of three men who had been arrested by Graham, which gave Mill's team assurance that his appeal for a new trial would be granted.

Mill's request to remove Brinkley from his file was previously denied.

"We continue to believe that this miscarriage of justice will be corrected after further examination, and that public confidence in the impartiality of the Pennsylvania justice system will be restored," Tacopina said.