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If passed, prosecutors would be required to provide "clear and convincing evidence" that lyrics cited as evidence are "literal, rather than figurative or fictional"The post Jay-Z, Meek Mill and more push for law that would stop New York prosecutors using rap lyrics as evidence appeared first on NME.
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