Master P holds rally for brother’s release

Percy “Master P” Miller, a New Orleans businessman and founder of No Limit Entertainment, held a rally last week calling for the release of his younger brother, Corey “C-Murder” Miller, in the wake of a key witness in the murder case recanting his testimony about the younger brother’s guilt.

Corey Miller, 47, is serving a life sentence at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for the 2002 slaying of 16-year-old Steven Thomas at a West Bank nightclub.

The rally was held Thursday on the Xavier University campus, where the older sibling also hosted a celebrity basketball game to benefit underprivileged kids in New Orleans.

According to the report, a jury voted 10-2 to convict Corey Miller on Aug. 11, 2009 in the death of Thomas.

NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reported recently that in recent weeks two witnesses in Corey Miller’s trials have recanted their original testimonies.

One of the witnesses said in an affidavit filed recently in Jefferson Parish that he was pressured by Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators and Jefferson Parish prosecutors into identifying Miller as the perpetrator.

The witness, Kenneth Jordan, said in the affidavit that he was told by Jefferson Parish authorities that he would face unrelated charges regarding his teenage girlfriend, who was ultimately charged with the death of the couple’s infant daughter, if he did not cooperate with authorities.

“I was distraught and scared,” Jordan said in the affidavit. “JPSO officers told me that if I testified against Corey Miller I could ‘go home.’”

“They told me what to say; they fed me facts about the fight and details about the DJ and the dance party, none of which I really knew.”

Jordan was clear in the affidavit about what he does know about the fatal shooting in the now-closed Platinum Club 16 years ago.

“I know that the individual that I saw shoot the gun was not Corey Miller,” he said in the affidavit.

Both Corey Miller and Kenneth Jordan are represented by attorney Paul Baker.

Baker filed a memorandum in 13th Judicial Court June 26 that contends that the affidavit filed June 25 warrants a hearing and, ultimately, Miller’s release.

This article originally published in the July 9, 2018 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.