Corey Miller, formerly known as rapper C Murder, was ordered back into full home confinement Tuesday after a judge in his murder case caught him at the premiere of Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina documentary.
State District Judge Martha Sassone said Tuesday she had planned to put Miller on partial house arrest until his second trial for second-degree murder begins, but those plans were scrapped when she saw the rapper being interviewed at the Aug. 16 premiere of Lee’s HBO documentary, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts."
"You're on home incarceration to prepare for a defense, not to have a social life," Sassone told Miller, according to AP. .
The 35-year-old New Orleans native is awaiting a retrial in the 2002 shooting of a 16-year-old boy outside a nightclub in Harvey. His original conviction was overturned after a judge ruled that prosecutors had withheld the criminal backgrounds of key state witnesses from the defense.
When he was released from prison in March, the brother of No Limit founder Master P was first placed on 24-hour house arrest. On July 13, Sassone gave him a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and ordered him to remain within Orleans and Jefferson Parishes.
His house arrest was reinstated in August by a state appeals court, which said that Sassone needed to have a hearing on state objections to Miller's release from house arrest. The judge allowed Miller to attend Sunday church services, but rejected a request to let him exercise in a park.
State District Judge Martha Sassone said Tuesday she had planned to put Miller on partial house arrest until his second trial for second-degree murder begins, but those plans were scrapped when she saw the rapper being interviewed at the Aug. 16 premiere of Lee’s HBO documentary, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts."
"You're on home incarceration to prepare for a defense, not to have a social life," Sassone told Miller, according to AP. .
The 35-year-old New Orleans native is awaiting a retrial in the 2002 shooting of a 16-year-old boy outside a nightclub in Harvey. His original conviction was overturned after a judge ruled that prosecutors had withheld the criminal backgrounds of key state witnesses from the defense.
When he was released from prison in March, the brother of No Limit founder Master P was first placed on 24-hour house arrest. On July 13, Sassone gave him a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and ordered him to remain within Orleans and Jefferson Parishes.
His house arrest was reinstated in August by a state appeals court, which said that Sassone needed to have a hearing on state objections to Miller's release from house arrest. The judge allowed Miller to attend Sunday church services, but rejected a request to let him exercise in a park.
