Nation Aug 09 Art or evidence? After appeal, court rules violent rap lyrics not a confession By PBS NewsHour
Nation Aug 09 New Jersey court strikes down murder conviction based on violent rap lyrics This week, the New Jersey State Supreme Court overturned, by a vote of 6-0, the attempted murder conviction of an aspiring rapper and small-time drug dealer named Vonte Skinner, arguing that the extensive reading of Skinner’s violent rap lyrics during… By Saskia de Melker, William Brangham