Tennessee Appeals Court overturns Nashville conviction based on rap lyric evidence
Merely singing about shooting a sheriff would not convict Bob Marley of murder, no more than writing about burying a man under the floorboards would convict Edgar Allen Poe.
But rapping about “a bloody murder scene, it’s killing season,” did help convict William Britton of second-degree murder in 2022, attorney David Raybin argued. Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Camille McMullen agreed.