C-Murder Seeks To Delay Trial Until After Election Day!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:38 pm

Corey "C-Murder" Miller's lawyer filed papers in court on Friday,
October 10 seeking a brief postponement of the rapper’s murder trial,
which was scheduled to being today.

Jury selection was to begin October 14, but Miller’s lawyer Ron
Rakosky seeks to delay the trial due to the upcoming elections and the
fact that presiding Judge Martha Sassone, who oversaw Miller’s first
trial, is seeking re-election.

According to New Orleans’ Times-Picayune, Miller’s opponent Ellen
Kovach has attacked Sassone’s decision to grant Miller a second trial
during her bid to unseat Sassone, an 18-year-veteran of the 24th
Judicial District Court.

Miller is charged with the January 12, 2002 shooting death of
16-year-old Steve Thomas inside of Club Platinum, a defunct nightclub
in Harvey. A jury convicted the popular rapper of the murder in
September of 2003 and he was subsequently sentenced to a mandatory life
sentence in prison. Months later, Sassone overturned the conviction
after it was revealed that prosecutors withheld key evidence and
expunged the criminal records of several of their key witnesses, in
exchange for testimony. Sassone’s ruling led to a three year battle
between Miller’s defense and prosecutors, which ended in the State
Supreme Court upholding Sassone’s decision in March of 2006.

Miller is free on $500,000 bond and was on work release and allowed to travel under conditions and work.

In July, Miller was placed under full house arrest while awaiting his
second trial for the murder. Miller’s lawyer Ron Rakosky is seeking to
delay the rapper’s trial until after the November 4 elections.

He has also been granted a subpoena ordering Kovach to provide any
campaign materials, which he labeled "inflammatory rhetoric," that may
be bias to any potential jurors.

Judge Sassone has deferred the issue to the state Judiciary Commission.