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The murder trial of the rapper known as C-Murder is winding up.

Corey Miller, the 30-year-old younger brother of rapper Percy Miller, known as Master P, would get an automatic life sentence if convicted of second-degree murder. Manslaughter would bring up to 40 years in prison.

Defense lawyers rested their case Monday after nine witnesses testified that Corey Miller did not beat and shoot 16-year-old Steve Thomas last year in a West Bank nightclub.

Each witness remembered Miller in a different part of the bar when the fight broke out Jan. 12 outside the Platinum Club in Harvey. The club closed shortly after the shooting.

One said he tapped Miller's hand to draw his attention to the fight as Miller talked to a disc jockey across the room. Another said Miller was standing near the people who were beating Thomas.

Others testified that Miller was at various other spots. All agreed that none of the club's guards, who wore distinctive yellow shirts, tried to break up the fight.

A key prosecution witness, security guard Darnell Jordan, testified two weeks ago that he was moving to break up the fight when he saw Miller shoot Thomas.

A bar patron said she saw Miller and friends beat Thomas, and then saw Miller reach under his shirt and stretch his hand toward Thomas, and then saw sparks fly from where a gun would have been.

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