Damn my nigga C-Murder got convicted today

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Mar 14, 2003
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GRETNA, La. -- A jury convicted rapper C-Murder, also known as Corey Miller, of second-degree murder Tuesday night in the shooting death of a 16-year-old in a Jefferson Parish nightclub.

Second-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence.

As the verdict was read, a number of Miller's female relatives began sobbing and were escorted out of the courtroom by police. The women could then be heard screaming in the hallway outside. Police officers stood in the aisle that separated the victim's family from the Miller's family.

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C-Murder, brother of rapper Master P
Miller's father, Percy Miller Sr., said the family would appeal.

"My son didn't do that," he said.

Steve Thomas was beaten and then fatally shot Jan. 12, 2002 during a fight outside the Platinum Club in Harvey.

"Now Steve can rest in peace," his father, George, said after the verdict.

Assistant District Attorney Douglas W. Freese said he was satisfied with the verdict.

"I'm pleased because I believe the killer has been put where he belongs," he said.

Defense attorney Ronald J. Rokosky did not speak to the media following the verdict.

Before they began deliberations Tuesday, jurors were told they could find Miller, 30, innocent of second-degree murder but guilty of manslaughter in Thomas' death.

But Assistant District Attorney Roger Jordan urged them to convict on the more serious charge. "Miller's a murderer. He's a killer. He took away something you can't give back -- Steve's life," Jordan said.

Miller, the younger brother of Master P, rapper Percy Miller Jr., did not testify in the trial before Judge Martha Sassone.

Two prosecution witnesses testified that Miller beat, then shot Thomas. Nine defense witnesses said he had nothing to do with the beating or shooting, but gave different descriptions of his clothes and of his whereabouts within the club.

Rokosky argued that Jefferson Parish investigators botched the case, finding only two witnesses who could identify Miller as the gunman out of 150 people still in the club when they arrived.

"A detective with barely two years experience in homicide was assigned to this job, and that's where the problems began," Rokosky said.

Jordan called Miller's case a "defense of desperation" in which Rokosky simply argued that all the prosecution witnesses conspired to lie under oath.

He pointed out the many discrepancies in the defense witness accounts, and asked why nobody in Miller's entourage at the club that night was called to testify.

The trial was halted between Rokosky's final argument and Jordan's summation, when a state appeal court ruled that prosecutors could bring up manslaughter as a possible verdict.

Sassone had accepted defense arguments against doing so.

Closing arguments were stopped when defense lawyers said they would appeal the 5th Circuit's ruling to the state Supreme Court. They resumed when the lawyers could not get an order for a further delay during the appeal.

Freese told jurors, "C-Murder, for no good reason at all, snuffed this boy's life out."

Each defense witness remembered Miller in a different part of the bar when the fight started. The club shut down shortly after the shooting.

One said he tapped Miller's hand to draw his attention to the fight as Miller talked to a disc jockey across the room. Another said Miller was standing near the people who were beating Thomas.

Others testified that Miller was at various other spots. All agreed that none of the club's guards, who wore distinctive yellow shirts, tried to break up the fight.

A key prosecution witness, security guard Darnell Jordan, testified two weeks ago that he was moving to break up the fight when he saw Miller shoot Thomas.

A bar patron said she saw Miller and friends beat Thomas, then saw Miller reach under his shirt and stretch his hand toward Thomas, and then saw sparks fly from where a gun would have been.

Rokowski complained to jurors that Miller had been accused throughout the case of second-degree murder and only on the trial's final day did prosecutors mention the possibility that he was guilty of manslaughter.

He said he had therefore worked to defend Miller only against second-degree murder, and had the "impossible task" of defending him on manslaughter charges as well in his brief closing arguments.

He asked for a mistrial, but Sassone refused.
 
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fuck that shit if c is innocent......mac got 30 or 40 years i think

c is sav...maybe he wasnt too smart puttin himself in this situation but he can spit some gangsta shit no doubt

i know we'll be hearing new shit from both of em though...maybe they can put shit out like raided is


i heard the new track" fuck the system" with c an mac...they tear it up on there