A Louisiana judge yesterday (October 16) scheduled February 11th 2008 as the new date for C-Murder’s retrial.

C- Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller, has been awaiting retrial on a second-degree murder charge in the 2002 killing of sixteen year old Steve Thomas, who was shot in the chest during a brawl in the defunct Platinum Club in Louisiana.

The rapper has been under house arrest since he was released on bond in March 2006, after the Louisiana Supreme Court overturned his murder conviction and accepted his request for a new trial.

According to The Associated Press, Judge Martha Sassone set the new trial date Tuesday after a telephone conference with the attorneys in the case.

The judge also revealed that Clerk of Court Jon Gegenheimer, will file an affidavit explaining why court records related to C- Murder’s trip out of New Orleans were not made immediately available to the public.

The New Orleans rapper left his hometown on Wednesday (October 10) to promote his book in Mississippi. Sassone's house arrest conditions allowed the rapper to move around in New Orleans under a strict curfew, it was the first time he had ever left the state.

When news of his trip surfaced, question s were raised whether C-Murder was allowed to leave New Orleans because the Clerk of Court’s electronic database of criminal and civil records did not show an order allowing the rapper to go to Mississippi.

The Clerk of Court is expected to file and provide such information online within days, but the aforementioned information,  which was almost two weeks old , was only posted online on Monday (October 15).

The delay in filing records online and Sassone’s decision to let C-Murder travel, has people accusing the judge of giving the rapper special treatment.

"He's getting privilege after privilege," Beverly Siemessen, president of Victims and Citizens against Crime, told The Times-Picayune on Friday (October 12). "Anybody else in that position is in jail, awaiting trial."