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C-Murder sentenced a bit more
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 26 August 2009
Rapper C-Murder, real name Corey Miller, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of a nightclub owner and bouncer. This follows the life sentence handed down earlier this month after he was found guilty, for a second time, of the murder of a teenager fan.
This latest sentence relates to a previously reported incident at the Baton Rouge club in Louisiana. Miller refused to be searched as he tried to get into the club in August 2001. In the ensuing argument, he fired shots into the club at the club’s own and the bouncer who had stopped him.
The ten year sentence, which was reduced as part of a plea deal based on time already spent in jail and under house arrest, will be served concurrently with the previously reported mandatory life sentence Miller received after being found guilty for the second time of the murder of teenage fan Steve Thomas at another Louisiana club in 2002. His original conviction for the murder was overturned when Judge Martha Sassone agreed that prosecutors had improperly withheld background information on three eyewitnesses, but a second jury found the former hip hopper guilty also.
Miller is planning to appeal against the murder charge but, as a result of the aforementioned plea deal, not the Baton Rouge incident.
