The judge, Genece Brinkley, who sentenced Meek Mill to 4 years for doing a wheelie on a dirt bike had her criminal cases stripped

The judge who sentenced Meek Mill to 4 years for doing a wheelie on a dirt bike had her criminal cases stripped. +50 of her cases were terminated by another judge over 2 days.

Genece Brinkley, the Pennsylvania judge who sentenced Meek Mill to prison, is facing her own legal battle.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the 66-year-old judge was transferred to civil court this year amid growing concerns about her ethics and work management. Brinkley’s pending criminal cases were reportedly reassigned and subjected to reviews by various lawyers and judges, who allegedly found a pattern of questionable rulings and behavior; these include imposing illegal sentences, allowing sentences to run past their maximum date, and failing to “quickly address cases remanded to her by higher courts.”

Brinkley filed a petition this month to reserve the transfer, saying the reassignment “raises unwarranted suspicions about [her] integrity and performance.”

“The last place that such shenanigans can be allowed is in our courts where integrity must be the hallmark,” she wrote.

The petition, which was submitted to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, came months after Brinkley filed a racial and gender discrimination complaint against Lucretia Clemons and Lisette Shirdan-Harris, two Black supervising judges for the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. Brinkley, who is also Black, declined to provide details about the alleged discrimination, but said it was “based on race, age, and gender.”

Brinkley became a judge in 1993, and won retention elections in 2003 and 2013. Her time on the bench has been widely scrutinized, with many calling her rulings unjust and heavy-handed. That criticism was fueled in 2017, when she slapped Mill with a two-to-four-year prison sentence for probation violations. The sentencing, which stemmed from a decade-old drug and gun conviction, sparked nationwide calls from criminal justice reform.

Mill’s legal team also accused Brinkley of having a personal “vendetta” against the Philly rapper, as she allegedly had ties to his former manager Charlie Mack. Brinkley reportedly urged Mill to ditch Roc Nation and return to Mack, and also asked Mill to give her a shout-out in one of his songs. Mill rejected both requests.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Judge Brinkley has been transferred to civil court and stripped of all her criminal cases, which have been reassigned with growing concerns of unethical conduct on her part.

“We have long raised concerns about Judge Brinkley,” Defender Association of Philadelphia Chief Keisha Hudson said. “Concerns in terms of judicial temperament and cases on an individual basis.”

Hudson said lawyers are reviewing 120 cases ruled on by Brinkley and are reconsidering the sentences because “they are grossly excessive.”

Brinkley is denying any wrongdoing and is seeking to have her position restored after filing a gender and racial discrimination complaint against the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

“[The reassignment] raises unwarranted suspicions about [her] integrity and performance. The last place that such shenanigans can be allowed is in our courts where integrity must be the hallmark,” she wrote.

Judge Brinkley’s term has been draped in controversy, headlined by her handing Meek Mill a two-to-four-year sentence in October 2017 for what she ruled was a probation violation in his 2008 gun case after Meek was arrested in NYC for reckless endangerment for popping wheelies and riding a dirtbike through the streets without a helmet.