{"id":1061,"date":"2014-04-07T21:17:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2014-04-08T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T11:39:15","slug":"california-prosecutes-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2014\/04\/07\/california-prosecutes-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"California Prosecutes Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/04\/LA-Times.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1060\" title=\"California Prosecutes Rao\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/04\/LA-Times-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/04\/LA-Times-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/04\/LA-Times.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our latest effort to draw attention to the use of rap lyrics as evidence in court, Charis Kubrin and I published <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-kubrin-and-nielson-rap-prosecution-20140408,0,7120266.story#axzz2yFdVTlOc\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">this op-ed<\/span><\/a><\/span> in the\u00a0<em>LA Times<\/em>. \u00a0Here we provide a national context but focus on the important role California has had in opening the door for the prosecution of rap. \u00a0Our research is revealing jaw-dropping numbers of cases in the Golden State, and in this piece we begin to explain why.<\/p>\n<p>I get calls from defense attorneys on a regular basis with rapper-clients whose music is being used against them in court. \u00a0Always a good bet that attorney is calling from California&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/articles\/culture\/2014\/04\/nj_supreme_court_considers_whether_rapper_s_song_lyrics_can_be_used_as_evidence.html?wpisrc=topstories\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">great piece<\/span><\/a><\/span> on the use of rap lyrics just went up at <em>The Root<\/em>. \u00a0It&#8217;s written by Prof. Emmett Price, whose broad musical knowledge makes his perspective especially valuable in these discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest effort to draw attention to the use of rap lyrics as evidence in court, Charis Kubrin and I published this op-ed in the\u00a0LA Times. \u00a0Here we provide a national context but focus on the important role California has had in opening the door for the prosecution of rap. \u00a0Our research is revealing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2014\/04\/07\/california-prosecutes-rap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California Prosecutes Rap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}