Meek Mill celebrated a momentous day on Thursday (Jan. 12) when he introduced that outgoing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf had granted him a pardon on the 15-year-old drug and gun fees that for years bedeviled the rapper’s life and profession. The strikes means the offenses might be completely expunged from his legal report. “Thankyall. I’m solely gone do extra for my neighborhood on God!,” Meek wrote on Instagram alongside a barely redacted copy of the official pardon doc. “#newlevelsunlocked,” he added.
Over on Twitter, Meek, 35, added, “I acquired pardoned at this time…, I’m taking issues actually removed from being a trench child!” The pardon reads, “Subsequently, know ye that in consideration of the premises and by advantage of the authority vested in me by the [redacted] mentioned Robert R. Williams (Alias: Meek Mill) born on Could 6, 1987, recognized [redacted]… crime(s) whereof he was convicted as aforesaid, and he’s thereby totally pardoned [redacted].
Mill (born Robert Rihmeek Williams), was convicted on drug and weapons fees in 2008 — when he was 18-years-old — and sentenced to 11-23 months in jail and launched after serving eight months of his sentence and was later positioned on probation for 5 years. What adopted was a years-long collection of authorized entanglements that helped remodel the rapper into an advocate for legal justice reform.
Mill was arrested once more in 2012 after cops mentioned they smelled marijuana coming from his automobile, then was again in courtroom two years afterward a probation violation for reserving performances exterior of his native Philly with no choose’s approval, leading to one other jail sentence. The identical choose sentenced him to 90 days of home arrest in 2016 for an additional alleged violation for touring exterior Philly, and as soon as extra in 2017 for violating his phrases of probation, netting him a two to 4 12 months sentence in state jail.
In July 2019, the Superior Courtroom of Pennsylvania granted Mill’s attraction, thereby overturning his 2008 conviction and ordering a brand new trial to be overseen by a special choose. That very same 12 months, Mill launched the non-profit REFORM Alliance, whose mission is to “remodel probation and parole by altering legal guidelines, programs and tradition to create actual pathways to work and wellbeing.”
See a replica of the pardon doc under.
