The prosecutions two main witnesses who don’t know each other say they were coerced by cops to make false statements to guarantee a conviction of No Limit Rapper C-Murder.
C-Murder has been in jail for 15 years now.
Six days after a witness recanted testimony identifying rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller as the gunman in a 2002 Harvey nightclub homicide, the other witness from the trial signed an affidavit saying that he, too, lied when he named Miller as the shooter.
Darnell Jordan, 36, testified in both of Miller’s second-degree murder trials. During the 2009 retrial, he told the court Miller killed Steve Thomas, 16, inside of the now-closed Platinum Club in Harvey where Jordan worked as a bouncer.
But Jordan now says he was scared of Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives who “tricked” him into identifying Miller, the younger brother of New Orleans rap mogul Percy “Master P” Miller.
“I am certain that Corey Miller did not shoot Steve Thomas,” Jordan said in a hand-written letter filed with the 24th Judicial District Court Monday (July 2).
Darnell Jordan accused detectives of coercing him into signing a photograph line-up that identified Miller as the suspect.
“I was scared of them,” Darnell Jordan wrote in his affidavit.
During Miller’s first trial in 2003 – for which the conviction was later overturned — and the second trial, Darnell Jordan said he was arrested on a material witness bond and held in isolation at a hotel until he testified. He accused Sheriff’s Office Detective Donald Clogher of handing him a piece of paper with his “statement” regarding the shooting, according to court records.
“I just want to tell the truth and clear my name,” Darnell Jordan wrote.
Crooked cops put an innocent man in jail just because he was black and high profile rapper. They are the ones who should be in jail.
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