Club owner asks court to lift stay in rapper suit
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A Baton Rouge nightclub owner whom Corey “C-Murder’’ Miller allegedly tried to shoot in 2001 asked an appeals court Friday to lift the stay of his civil lawsuit against the rapper.
The written request filed at the state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal came two days after Miller pleaded no contest to attempted murder charges in the Club Raggs incident, and three weeks after a judge refused to lift the nearly 6-year-old stay of the civil case.
State District Judge Kay Bates ruled May 11 that the stay will remain in effect until a second-degree murder charge against Miller is resolved in Jefferson Parish.
Miller, the youngest brother of rap star and producer Percy “Master P’’ Miller, is scheduled to be retried Aug. 3 in the January 2002 killing of a 16-year-old during a brawl in a Harvey nightclub.
Stephen Irving, who represents Club Raggs owner Norman Sparrow and nine others in the line of fire when Corey Miller allegedly tried to shoot Sparrow and a security guard at the Plank Road club in August 2001, argues Sparrow and the others have waited long enough for their day in court.
They are seeking damages from the 38-year-old Miller, who lives in Kenner but is being held in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison until his Aug. 25 sentencing in the attempted second-degree murder case.
Miller, who had “substantial assets’’ when the civil suit was filed in August 2001, has had those assets “steadily eroded while the case has been stayed,’’ Irving contends in his 1st Circuit filing. “Miller will obviously have no or very limited ability to respond (to a civil judgment) if he is in fact convicted of murder again and given a life sentence,’’ he claims.
At his first trial in the Jefferson case, Miller was found guilty but the conviction was overturned after a judge said prosecutors withheld information about witnesses.
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