C-MURDER RETRIAL DELAYED AGAIN

C-MURDER RETRIAL DELAYED AGAIN

Rapper COREY 'C-MURDER' MILLER has won a bid to postpone his murder retrial after the presiding judge was defeated in the U.S. Judicial District Court elections.
The New Orleans, Louisiana star - brother of rap mogul Master P - is currently awaiting a new trial over charges he shot dead 16-year-old Steve Thomas in a club in 2002.
He was convicted and handed a life sentence for second-degree murder in 2003, but it was overturned in 2006.
The new court hearing for Miller's second-degree murder charge was due to take place in January (09), two weeks before incumbent Judge Martha Sassone steps down from her post in Gretna, Louisiana.
But it has now been delayed until a new judge can be appointed to the case - because Sassone's successor, Ellen Kovach, made disparaging remarks about Sassone and her handling of Miller's case in her battle for the position.
Kovach had claimed Sassone had shared birthday cake in court with the defendant, and alleged that Miller had been "getting away with more than murder" in her campaign for the Judicial District Court seat.
Miller's lawyers argued Kovach's comments could affect jurors' decisions in the case, and as a result, she has excused herself from the murder retrial. It could now take weeks or even months until a new judge takes over Miller's case.