The use of lyrics in the courtroom has again surfaced ... that ended with a jury finding the artists, including rap legend Uncle Luke, not guilty of obscenity. Three decades later, the ...

does not mean they share those values or have acted out those themes. With no law banning rap lyrics in New York, it is up to judges to decide if they can be used in court. Like all other evidence ...

Now, RICO laws allow prosecutors to use rap lyrics as evidence to implicate a collective of Black ... were indicted on RICO charges. Not only does this take the criminalization of rap to boundless ...

In “the second such case it’s ever had to consider”, The Washington Post reported at the time, the court ruled that rap lyrics should not have been used as evidence against Vonte Skinner ...

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