Kim Kardashian has joined the fight to free the rapper C-Murder, real name Corey Miller. Miller was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 after being convicted of the 2002 murder of 16-year-old Steven Thomas, who was shot and killed at a Louisiana nightclub. The case was controversial and drawn-out — Miller and his lawyers appealed the conviction multiple times. In 2018, two key witnesses recanted their testimonies, saying that they were pressured by police and prosectors to identify Miller as the shooter.
R&B singer Monica, who was dating C-Murder around the time of his incarceration, has been leading the call to free Miller. In a recent Instagram post, she says that she reached out to Kardashian, who has made criminal justice reform one of her missions.
C-Murder is the brother of Master P, and he put out a number of projects on his No Limit Records label in the ’90s, both alone and as part of the supergroup TRU. “Thank you to everyone praying for me.. This system will strip of your aspirations and dreams but not Corey Miller … God has not forgotten me,” Mille wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday. “My prayers are being answered in many ways ! Kim you’re changing lives of those of us that have been forgotten.”
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