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POLICE CHIEF QUESTIONS C-MURDER’S PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT: He’s ‘mystified’ by Judge Sassone’s actions regarding house arrest.
*Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson in Louisiana says he is “mystified” by the repeated interventions of a judge in the house arrest dispute surrounding rapper C-Murder.
As previously reported, Judge Martha Sassone released the rap star from house arrest last week and instead imposed a 10 p.m. curfew.
According to the Times-Picayune newspaper, Lawson has taken issue with several decisions made by Sassone in relation to C-Murder, including her June 5th phone call ordering an officer escorting the artist to jail to return the defendant back home. Although Sassone was within her authority, Lawson thought it was out of character for a judge. It was also the first such order in the six years that his department has run the home incarceration program.
Lawson also found troubling a statement Sassone made in court last week voicing concern over the “burden” placed on the department by the extra effort it takes to monitor C-Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller.
“We certainly don’t feel that it was a burden. It certainly wasn’t the sentiment of our officers, the office or the program,” Lawson told the Times-Picayune.
Lawson further states that the nature of Miller’s case should not have qualified him to serve his sentence under the home incarceration program. He listed as examples the violent nature of his crime, and incidents he incurred while behind bars, such as possession of an illegal cell phone and an assault on an officer.
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