Eleven days after he was ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison for a Jefferson Parish murder, New Orleans rapper C-Murder was sentenced this morning (August 25)  in connection with two unrelated attempted murders in a Baton Rouge nightclub.

C-Murder, 38, received the 10-year sentence from Judge Tony Marabella of the 19th Judicial District as part of a plea deal the rapper agreed to on May 27.

Prosecutors, who recommended the sentence, said C-Murder  also gets credit for the time he has been jailed awaiting trial and under house arrest. The amount of time C-Murder must serve on the sentence has not been calculated.

C-Murder pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted second-degree murder, for attempting to shoot the owner of Club Raggs and a bouncer, after he refused to be searched.

The Aug. 14, 2001 incident was caught on Club Raggs' video surveillance system, showing C-Murder , wearing a New Orleans' Saints jersey bearing the number 03, arguing with the bouncer. As he left the club's front door, C-Murder is seen pointing a pistol.

Authorities said C-Murder tried to shoot the two people, but the semiautomatic pistol jammed. He tried to clear the jammed weapon and ejected a b ullet that investigators recovered but since lost, prosecutors in the Baton Rouge case said.

Prosecutors said they feared that the lost evidence and claims made by the Club Raggs' owner Norman Sparrow in a related civil lawsuit, hindered their chance of getting a jury to convict C-Murder  in the aged criminal case. In the civil case, also filed in the 19th Judicial District, Sparrow claimed that C-Murder's actions were a publicity stunt.

C-Murder  was convicted Aug. 11 of second-degree murder in the Jan. 12, 2002, death of Steve Thomas, 16, who was shot in the chest while being beaten by a group of men in the now-closed Platinum Club in Harvey.

Judge Hans Liljeberg of the 24th Judicial District Court, sentenced Miller to a mandatory life sentence in prison on Aug. 14. C-Murder was immediately transferred to the custody of the state Department of Corrections after the sentencing in Gretna.

C-Murder , who lived in Baton Rouge in 2001, was free on bond in the Club Raggs case when Thomas was shot in Harvey. The Jefferson Parish jury voted 10-2 to convict C-Murder  of killing Thomas. C-Murder, who says he is innocent of that crime, is appealing.