The judge who granted the rapper C-Murder a new murder trial denied a request to release him on bond Monday because he faces other felony charges.

State District Judge Martha Sassone last week ruled that the rapper, whose real name is Corey Miller, deserves a new trial because prosecutors withheld key information about the witnesses who implicated him.

On Monday, Sassone ruled Miller will not be released on bond while he waits for a new second-degree murder trial. Sassone ordered Miller held because he also faces charges after being booked in August 2001, with attempted first-degree murder and a weapons charge after allegedly trying to shoot the owner of a Baton Rouge nightclub.

Ronald Rakosky, Miller’s defense lawyer, said his client should be released because Baton Rouge prosecutors have not pursued those charges in the more than two years since Miller’s arrest.

Miller also faces a charge of battery on a prison guard for an alleged attack inside the Jefferson Parish jail. He has a June 14 court date on that charge.

Miller, 33, was convicted last September of second-degree murder in the killing of Steve Thomas, 16, inside a Jefferson Parish nightclub on Jan. 12, 2002. He faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

The judge ruled last week that Miller deserved a new trial prosecutors had withheld information from the defense about the criminal histories of several witnesses.

Prosecutors have a May 6 deadline to appeal.

Miller has been in the parish jail since his arrest Jan. 19, 2002.

Credit: AP