For example if a rapper was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder and in a song he or she talks about murdering someone or the kind of weapon he or she uses can that be used as evidence against him or her?
2007-10-08 07:31:17 · 5 answers · asked by Balrog 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
This has been done before. Song writers and authors have been convicted and sentenced due to their writings and lyrics of specific situations. A writer just got convicted of a previously unsolved murder that he wrote graphically about in one of his books. Turns out he had too many details dead on that were not released to the public and he was in the area the murder occurred. Turns out one of the best ways to hide your crime is to keep it to yourself, not publish it or rap about it on the airwaves, go figure.
2007-10-08 07:41:28 · answer #1 · answered by Phonebreaker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know you can offer to submit anything as evidence. But the judge will have to determine just how relavant to the case the evidence is, and how the evidence was obtained (through criminal or legal methods).
While it's true a composer or writer can write about anything they so desire, if they decide to illegally act out what they put on paper, then their words can be used against them.
2007-10-08 07:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by Horatio 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can USE it as evidence, but that doesn't mean that the jury will see it as conclusive. Nevertheless it will go a little ways to showing someone's predisposition toward a certain act by demonstraing that their mind had gone down that bunny trail already.
2007-10-08 07:40:15 · answer #3 · answered by Whoops, is this your spleeen? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The notorious big case comproves it
2007-10-08 08:23:20 · answer #4 · answered by Lord Marreta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is still not a crime to write fictitious, creative, lyrics. No.
2007-10-08 07:35:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋