ATLANTA — Atlanta City Council passed a resolution urging the Georgia General Assembly to revisit and "explicitly limit the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials." This new resolution comes ...

Maryland's new PACE Act makes it the third state to pass laws restricting prosecutors' use of rap lyrics in criminal cases.

Rap snitches, telling all their business, won't have to sit in court and be their own star witness. At least not in New York state. The Rap Music on Trial bill, sponsored by state Sen. Brad ...

Should lawyers be allowed to use song lyrics, performances or creative expression against an artist during criminal prosecutions? That question is at the center of legislation that’s triggering debate ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the 2019 conviction Wednesday, May 8, 2024 of a Greenville man sentenced to life without parole for his role in a 2017 murder and burglary. The ...

The newly-passed PACE Act would restrict when prosecutors can cite rap lyrics in criminal cases, part of a nationwide effort to limit the practice. By Bill Donahue Maryland passed legislation Thursday ...

“The way that prosecutors are using these lyrics is really to strip them of any artistic value, to deny them the status of art at all, and treat them as literal confessions,” said Erik Nielson, a ...

NEW YORK — Nearly half a century after “Hotel California” became a rock megahit, three men went on trial Wednesday in a criminal case about what became of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to the song ...

NEW YORK — In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert ...