SALEM — Should music, specifically rap lyrics, be considered evidence in a court of law? This is a question jurors nationally and in the Salem Superior Court are grappling with. Unique evidence in the ...

A bill before Gov. Newsom would force prosecutors to seek a judge’s approval to introduce rap lyrics to a jury. Gary Bryant Jr. exchanged gunfire with a man in an Antioch apartment parking lot on a ...

In 2001, St. Tammany Parish prosecutors turned to rap lyrics as part of their attempt to paint McKinley “Mac” Phipps Jr. as capable of first-degree murder. Their reasoning: Phipps writes music with ...

READ ALOUD in court, the words sounded like a confession: “Fuck the judge…this that mob life…cookin’ white brick.” Not long ago the defendant, Jeffery Williams, was rapping these lines on stage. Now ...

ATLANTA — A judge ruled on Thursday that song lyrics will be allowed as evidence under certain conditions in the Young Slime Life RICO trial. Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was inside the courtroom as ...

The rapper's indictment in Georgia spotlighted the controversial practice. The indictment of rapper Young Thug on gang-related charges in May 2022 sparked a movement in the music industry against the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California has become the first state to restrict the use of creative expression in a criminal proceeding, and artists and free ...