C-Murder pleads no contest
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Rapper Corey “C-Murder’’ Miller today pleaded no contest to two attempted second-degree murder charges in Baton Rouge state court.
Prosecutors are recommending a minimum 10-year sentence for Miller and whatever sentence he receives will run concurrent with any time he gets in a Jefferson Parish murder case. He will receive credit for time served in jail since August 2001.
In the Baton Rouge case, Miller, 38, is accused of trying to shoot the owner of Club Raggs and a bouncer in August 2001 while trying to enter the Plank Road nightclub.
State District Judge Tony Marabella has scheduled Miller’s sentencing for Aug. 25. Miller, who had been under house arrest in Kenner, was taken into custody by authorities and escorted to East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
A no-contest plea has the same effect as a guilty plea in criminal court, but cannot be used as an admission of guilt in civil court.
Miller, the youngest brother of rap star and producer Percy “Master P’’ Miller, also is scheduled to be retried Aug. 3 on a second-degree murder charge in the January 2002 killing of a 16-year-old during a brawl in a Jefferson Parish nightclub.
The East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney’s Office stalled the Baton Rouge trial for years, waiting to see what would happen in the Jefferson Parish case.
The District Attorney’s Office recused itself from prosecuting the case earlier this year because newly elected District Attorney Hillar Moore III previously represented Corey Miller in the case.
Moore’s brother, Steven, now represents Miller.
The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office is handling the case. Assistant Attorneys General Butch Wilson and David Caldwell are the prosecutors.
At his first trial in the Jefferson case, Miller was convicted but the conviction was overturned after a judge said prosecutors withheld information about witnesses.
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