{"id":1242,"date":"2017-05-12T16:42:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:42:19","slug":"keeping-rap-lyrics-out-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2017\/05\/12\/keeping-rap-lyrics-out-of-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping rap lyrics out of court"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Murillo\"<\/a>This is my latest piece<\/a> at\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u00a0Here I begin with the case of Anthony Murillo, a California high school student who was prosecuted for writing a rap song that, according to authorities, was a threat. \u00a0I testified as an expert witness for the defense, and in a rare victory in cases like this, he was found not guilty. \u00a0As I have written many times in the past, most defendants whose rap lyrics are used as evidence against them\u00a0are not so lucky. \u00a0 Here I consider a number of the reasons why.<\/p>\n

As I mention in this article, I am now working with University of Georgia law professor Andrea Dennis to gather data on these cases. In the fall of 2016, we each had student research teams helping us, and they generated some truly impressive research. \u00a0Here at the University of Richmond, the team was comprised of Lisa Cheney, Tracy Ellerman, Zach Grossfeld, Dean Liverman, and Laini Marshall. \u00a0 Their work was invaluable, so in the fall of 2017, I will be putting together another team of students to continue learning about–and drawing attention to–the disturbing use of an art form to put people in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my latest piece at\u00a0Rolling Stone. \u00a0Here I begin with the case of Anthony Murillo, a California high school student who was prosecuted for writing a rap song that, according to authorities, was a threat. \u00a0I testified as an expert witness for the defense, and in a rare victory in cases like this, he … Continue reading Keeping rap lyrics out of court<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","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\/1242","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=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}