By: Jacoby Miles (December 29, 2011)

After Corey “C-Murder” Miller argued that his 2009 trial was unjust, a Louisiana appeals court upheld his life sentence ruling. Miller declared that his original trial was racially charged by prosecutors when they allegedly prevented African-Americans from participating in the jury. He also claimed that the judge permitted prejudicial statements to be made during the trial by the prosecutors. Furthermore, Miller’s defense asserted that when the jury was incapable of reaching a verdict, the judge was suppose to call for a mistrial. The 5th Circuit court was not moved from Miller’s assertions, according to the Washington Post. Miller was first convicted of second degree murder of a 16-year-old at a nightclub in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana in 2003. His defense was granted a new trial after they proved that prosecutors withheld several witnesses’ criminal backgrounds. In 2009, the jury of his new trial was deadlocked which made Judge Hans Liljeberg instruct them to come to a resolution. The jury’s final decision was a 10-2 guilty verdict.