According to Associated Press, No Limit Record rapper C-Murder, born Corey Miller, has been denied a retrial in connection to his conviction for the murder of 16-year-old fan Steve Thomas at a nightclub.
Miller, the younger sibling of rapper Master P, is currently serving a life sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola after a jury voted 10-2 to connect him in August of 2009.
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The denial comes after two eyewitnesses, Kenneth Jordan and Darnell Jordan, recanted their sworn testimonies. Jordan and Jordan share no relation.
In a sworn affidavit filed in New Orleansβ 24th Judicial District Court, Kenneth Jordan stated he knew that he knew βthe individual that I saw shoot the gun was not Corey Miller,β according to records. Jordan also claimed that detectives pressured him to lie under oath, threatening him with criminal charges of his own.
Kenneth Jordanβs affidavit also states he saw another hooded man with a dark complexion shoot Thomas.
βHe was really their star witness at the second trial. Without him, him they donβt get a conviction,β said Millerβs attorney Paul Barker.
In a handwritten letter filed with the district court a week after Kennethβs confession, Darnell told authorities he was βcertain that Corey Miller did not shoot Steve Thomas.β Darnell said he had been tricked into testifying against Miller.
Thomas was beaten and shot in January of 2002 during an altercation outside of the now-closed Platinum Club.
According to New Orleansβ The Advocate, Judge Steven Enright ruled that last yearβs reactions failed to meet the burden of proof for post-conviction relief.
βA new trial should not be granted on the basis of a recantation,β Enright wrote in his decision, βbecause it is tantamount to perjury so as to discredit the witness at a later trial.β
According to Enright, Darnell, who was working as a security guard on the night of the shooting, told a detective he saw Miller shoot. Though his story changed in subsequent interviews with investigators, he ultimately returned to his initial account of the nightβs events.
βThis testimony goes against petitionerβs claim that Darnell Jordan was tricked into testifying as he did,β Enright wrote.
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