Rapper's house arrest reinstated

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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A recent TV appearance by Corey Miller has led a New Orleans judge to rescind an earlier court decision and reinstate the rapper's full-time house arrest.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that Judge Martha Sassone of the 24th Judicial District Court of Louisiana ordered that the 35-year-old rapper, known as C-Murder, remain on 24-hour house arrest until his trial after seeing Miller violate his confinement to attend a televised event.

Tuesday's judgment from Sassone came after Miller participated in an interview with WDSU-TV at the premiere of Spike Lee's newest film, "When the Levees Broke," on Aug. 17.

Her ruling that the rapper remain under full house arrest until his retrial on second-degree murder charges from 2002 represented the most recent decision in what has been a most unusual court case.

The newspaper said that since being found guilty of the second-degree murder of 16-year-old Steve Thomas in 2003 and later released on bond, the rapper had his house arrest cut by Sassone, reinstated by a state Court of Appeal, and cut again on the day of the premiere.