A woman who served on the jury in convicted rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller‘s murder case [click to read] says that she was not entirely convinced of the rapper’s guilt – despite voting in favor of it.
According to the Times-Picayune, Mary Jacob says she ended deliberations for sake of another juror – a 20-year-old woman who felt the rapper was innocent, but was physically and emotionally unable to withstand the “brutal” pressure from other jurors.
“This thing had to come to an end for this girl’s health, her sanity,” said Jacob, who cast the deciding vote to deliver the 10-2 verdict twice – the minimum required by state law for a second-degree murder conviction. “I believe what happened to Steve Thomas on the floor of the Platinum Club happened to her verbally,” she said, referring to the 16-year-old boy C-Murder was convicted of murdering.
“I was more worried about this little girl than I was about Corey Miller,” added Jacob. “Corey Miller will survive whatever happens to him.“
“They literally made this 20-year-old girl so violently ill,” Jacob continued. “She was shaking so bad. She ran into the bathroom. She was throwing her guts up. She couldn’t function anymore. That’s when I decided, the judge don’t want to listen to me, doesn’t want to listen to us? I told them, ‘You want him to be guilty? He’s guilty, now let’s get the hell out of here.”
Neither Miller‘s family nor attorney have commented on the matter. Miller is scheduled to be sentenced today (Aug. 25) in a separate case for two counts of attempted second-degree murder in Baton Rouge at Club Raggs in August 2001.
