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C-Murder's Trial Rewind
UPDATE: With his retrial now set for April 20, 2009, Miller was booked into a Louisiana jail March 9 after an electronic monitor indicated he had breached the terms of his house arrest for about 10 minutes that morning. Miller's attorney maintains that his client was home at the time, sleeping.
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C-Murder has a new judgment day.
A New Orleans judge has set a Feb. 11 start date for the multiplatinum rapper's new trial for second-degree murder.
Louisiana State District Judge Martha Sassone made the announcement during a conference call Tuesday with prosecutors and lawyers for the 36-year-old performer, whose real name is Corey Miller.
The emcee was convicted by a jury in September 2003 of gunning down 16-year-old Steve Thomas outside the Platinum nightclub in the suburb of Harvey on Jan. 12, 2002. Miller received an automatic life sentence.
But, in April 2004, Sassone tossed the conviction and ordered a second trial after ruling that prosecutors in the original case withheld key information about the criminal histories of witnesses called to implicate Miller.
Miller, who has remained under house arrest since March 2006 on $500,000 bail, faces a mandatory life sentence without parole.
To help soften his image during the long-playing case, the performer, who's the sibling of rappers Silkk the Shocker and Master P and the uncle of Romeo, initially changed his stage name from C-Murder to C-Miller. However, he now uses C-Murder for his MySpace page as well as the site promoting his just released novel, Death Around the Corner.
Sassone has allowed Miller to promote the book around the country, as long as he checks in with a court officer.
Since his case began, Miller has released two albums, 2005's The Truest Sh--I Ever Said and 2006's The Tru Story: Continued, and has another set for a release in January—near the sixth anniversary of Thomas' death and just weeks before the trial.
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