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C-Murder pleads no contest to attempted murder charges
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 28 May 2009
As rapper C-Murder prepares to defend himself in his murder retrial later this year, yesterday he, erm, pleaded no contest to a totally separate set of attempted murder charges. Which means that even if he does successfully defeat the second degree murder charges he will fight for a second time this August, he could still be facing a decade in jail.
As much previously reported, C-Murder, who has sensibly adopted the moniker C-Miller since getting tangled up with all these murder allegations, his real name being Corey Miller, was convicted in 2003 for the 2002 murder of teenager Jefferson Parrish. However, the verdict in that trial was overruled after it was revealed the jury hadn’t been told about a deal that had been done with a rather shady witness for the prosecution, whose testimony was arguably crucial to the final ruling. Since then Miller has been living under house arrest, and will face a retrial for the Parrish murder in August.
Meanwhile, Miller faced a totally separate set of charges relating to a separate earlier incident in 2001 when the rapper apparently pulled a gun on the owner of a Baton Rouge club after an altercation with a bouncer when he refused to be searched before entering the establishment. Miller can apparently be seen on a video recording pulling a gun on both club owner Norman Sparrow and the bouncer. The gun jams, however, and the prosecution argued that that was the only reason the two men weren’t shot.
With a trial due to begin any time in relation to that set of attempted murder charges, Miller’s legal people this week reached a plea deal with prosecutors in which the rapper agreed to plead no contest. It is thought the prosecution will agree to a ten year prison sentence as part of the deal. That said, some reports suggest time already service in prison and under house arrest, even though much of that relates to the other murder case, may be taken into account when sentencing, meaning any actual prison time might be significantly cut.
Meanwhile, the second Parrish murder trial is due to take place in August. It remains to be seen if the jury this time also finds Miller guilty, even without the dodgy witness who helped secure the guilty verdict first time round. If so, the sentence for the attempted murder charge will be almost irrelevant.
