C-Murder Sees Murder Conviction Overturned

The Louisiana Supreme Court overturned rapper C-Murder's second degree murder conviction on March 10, which could make him a free man (if perhaps only temporarily) this week.

C-Murder (born Corey Miller), the younger brother of hip-hop impresario Master P, has been behind bars since his 2003 conviction related to the murder of 16-year-old Steve Thomas outside the Platinum Club in Harvey, La. in January 2002. The court denied an appeal of his conviction last year.

The rapper, who recorded 2005's The Truest Shit I Ever Said album in prison, renounced his stage name last year and appropriately adopted C-Miller instead.

The high court agreed with a lower court judge who said that the jury should have been notified about the criminal backgrounds of witnesses who testified against Miller in 2003.

The district attorney's office hasn't announced whether it will retry Miller, who continues to face attempted murder charges in Baton Rouge, La., where he's accused of shooting a club owner and a patron in August 2001.

"[From] the very beginning of this case, there has never been any credible evidence that Corey Miller was guilty of this crime," his lawyer, Ron Rakosky, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "And four years later I don't know of a single shred of evidence that implicates him with this crime."

Rakosky added that Miller is "ecstatic" about his possible release.