RadioonFire.com - Meek Mill may yet get another day in court — but it won’t be on Nov. 27. In an incident that will likely infuriate the Philly-born rapper’s already enraged supporters, a Philadelphia court employee on Friday mistakenly scheduled a bail hearing for the imprisoned Mill – only to have officials say hours later there were no plans for such a hearing.
Gabriel Roberts, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Courts, said Friday that Mill’s legal team electronically filed a motion requesting bail pending appeal under his birth name, Robert Williams. Not recognizing the defendant as the high-profile hip-hop artist sent back to prison last week, a court clerk scheduled the matter for a routine hearing before Common Pleas Court Judge Genece E. Brinkley on Nov. 27.
But Brinkley dictates her own hearing schedule — and certainly had not scheduled Mill to be back in her courtroom on Nov. 27.
Within hours of the news hitting social media, the hearing-that-never-was had been scrapped. An entry on the case docket late Friday read: “Corrective Docket Entry — Bail Hearing listed for 11/27/2017 was scheduled in error.”
The error caught Mill’s legal team unaware and they had no immediate comment.
The scheduling error was more shocking than the initial surprising news that Brinkley would hear Mill’s bail petition — 11 days after igniting a publicity firestorm by sending the hip-hop star back to prison for two to four years for violating the terms of his 2008 probation in a drug and gun case.
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