McKinley Phipps, Sr., his wife Sheila, meet in front of the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center to discuss with the media their hopes of reopening the manslaughter case and overturning the conviction of their son McKinley "Mac" Phipps, Jr. after some of the key witnesses against the aspiring rapper claim their testimony was "bullied" from them by St. Tammany Parish prosecutors. Phipps, Jr., the Baton Rouge rapper who calls himself Mac "The Camouflage Assassin," was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of Barron Victor Jr. outside a Slidell nightclub Feb. 20, 2000. The Huffington Post recently examined his conviction in a story.
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