Abstract
This article published on April 25, 2016 at the Huffington Post examines the case of McKinley Phipps. He was sentenced to thirty years of hard labor for a crime that, to this day, he insists he did not commit. During the trial prosecutors used Phipps’s rap persona and lyrics - remixed for special effect - to carefully construct a story of Phipps’s guilt. The article discusses how Phipps lyrics and persona contributed to his conviction and the progress of his appeals.
Repository Citation
Dennis, Andrea L.; Nelson, Erik; and Render, Michael, "Louisiana Rapper’s Case Speaks to Bigger Problems in the Criminal Justice System" (2016). Popular Media. 268.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/268