You Have the Right to Be Stupid
The AP has a story out titled C-Murder Loses Murder Conviction Appeal. I first heard about this genius from Xrlq, when C-Murder was first convicted of murder. Today’s story chronicles C-Murder’s adventures on appeal.
In April 2004, State District Judge Martha Sassone ordered a new trial on grounds that prosecutors withheld information on the criminal history of their key witnesses.
Prosecutors appealed the ruling, and earlier this month, two of the three judges on a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that even without the witnesses’ testimony, “there was an abundance of other evidence which fully established [C-Murder’s] guilt, not the least of which was his name, which explicitly contains the world ‘murder.'”
Okay, so I made up that last phrase. I can’t help it.
The story continues:
C-Murder told the AP that he believes other courts may have been swayed by media reports and negative comments made about him — not to mention the fact that his name has the word “murder” right there in the middle of it.
I’m sorry. That last phrase was made up too. I can’t seem to help myself. Call me C-Fibber.
Next, some rapper named “3-Murder” will change his name to “4-Murder” and wonder why he gets police attention for it.
Kevin Murphy (6a7945) — 4/1/2005 @ 9:05 amApril Fool’s jokes work better when you don’t let people in on them.
otcconan (52a66f) — 4/1/2005 @ 9:13 amHilarious! I hope Mr C gets fried or hung or whatever they do in La.
Rod Stanton (4f1b9f) — 4/1/2005 @ 12:39 pmPatterico would surely be P-Fibber, or to be a true gangsta, it’d have to be P-Fibba$.
Leigh (6ad34a) — 4/1/2005 @ 7:09 pmWe need to remove these liberal judges and replace them with judges who wont overturn a conviction on some reciclous grounds
night heron (4c4c3c) — 4/5/2005 @ 11:01 am