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Kidd Creole’s murder trial opens with self-defense claim

FILE - Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. The trial of the rapper has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless man to death in 2017. The artist, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, is charged with murder and went on trial Friday, March 25, 2022 in Manhattan.(Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool) FILE - Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. The trial of the rapper has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless man to death in 2017. The artist, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, is charged with murder and went on trial Friday, March 25, 2022 in Manhattan. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, File) FILE - Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. The trial of the rapper has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless man to death in 2017. The artist, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, is charged with murder and went on trial Friday, March 25, 2022 in Manhattan.(Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool) FILE - Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. The trial of the rapper has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless man to death in 2017. The artist, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, is charged with murder and went on trial Friday, March 25, 2022 in Manhattan. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, File) FILE - Singer Kidd Creole attends the La Dolce Vita Event in Aid of The Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani's Wall Street, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007 in New York. Creole, 61, a hip-hop pioneer whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, said he feared for his life when he fatally stabbed a homeless man in Midtown five years ago, as his murder trial got underway Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File) FILE - Singer Kidd Creole attends the La Dolce Vita Event in Aid of The Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani's Wall Street, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007 in New York. Creole, 61, a hip-hop pioneer whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, said he feared for his life when he fatally stabbed a homeless man in Midtown five years ago, as his murder trial got underway Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
Kidd Creole’s murder trial opens with self-defense claim