C-Murder Under House Arrest After Being Freed From Prison

C-Murder was released from prison on $500,000 U.S. bail on Monday night after his second-degree murder conviction was overturned on March 10.

The rapper (real name Corey Miller), who now goes by the less threatening C Miller moniker, was released to house arrest. He's barred from using the phone, except to call his lawyer. Attorney Ron Rakosky argues that his client's limitations are too strict.

"The restrictions forbid him to talk to anyone except his lawyers and family," Rakosky told MTV News. "And he's not allowed to go anywhere except court or my office, which probably won't change."

But the sneaky MC found a way to talk to the press when he released this statement to AllHipHop.com through his managers, Barbara Pescosolido and Lupe Ceballos:

"It's been a long road but the truth finally came out. I can't wait to go home, see my people and be up in the studio to finish my album and focus on my label."

The rapper also posted a $250,000 bond in relation to a separate attempted murder charge in Baton Rouge, La. Miller was accused of shooting a club owner and patron in August 2001 after being told that he would be searched before entering the bar. First motions for that trial have been set for May 30.

Miller has been in prison since September 2003, when he was convicted of second-degree murder for killing 16-year-old Steve Thomas outside a Harvey, La. club in January 2002.

A new trial was ordered by the judge in 2004, but that decision was reversed by an appeals court that claimed that there was overwhelming evidence against the accused. But a high court recently accepted the original judge's request for a new trial, allowing Miller to wait in his house until March 31, when the district attorney's office will decide if it wants to retry him or not.