Ill. Read the Opinion-article. As you read, highlight + label-examples of-Logos,- Pathos and-Ethos. Use a different-color-highlighter-for each Rhetorical-Appeal.-1 1.SHOULD rap lyrics be used in court as evidence of a crime? 1 2 Next week, the Supreme Court of New Jersey will hear a case that could help.decide just that. At-issue is a prosecutor's extensive use of rap , composed by a man named Vonte Skinner, as evidence of his involvement in a 2005 shooting. 1 3.During-Mr. Skinner's trial in-2008, the prosecutor read the jury.13 pages of violent lyrics written by Mr. Skinner, even-though all of the lyrics were composed before the shooting (in some cases, -years before) and none of them-mentioned the victim or specific-details about the crime. 4 In keeping with rap's "gangsta"-subgenre, the lyrics read like-an ode to violent street life, with lines like. "In the hood, I am a threat:/ It's written on my arm and signed in blood on my Tech" - a reforence to a Tec-9 handgun.- "I'm in love with you, death." 5-The other-evidence against Mr. Skinner was largely testimony from-witnesses who changed their stones-multiple times. And yet, the jury found him guilty of attempted. murder, and he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. " 6.But in-2012, the conviction was overturned by an-appellate court that-ruled that the lynes should never have been admitted as evidence . The majority opinion.stated, "We have a significant doubl about whether-the jurors would have found defendant guilty.if they had not been required to listen to the extended reading of these disturbing and- highly-prejudicial lyrics."The state appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court. 1 7-Mr. Skinner's-case is far-from-unique. .Rap lyrics and videos are turning up.as- evidence in courtrooms across the country with alarming regularity. Last year, the American-Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey found that in-18 cases in which various. courts considered the admissibility of rap as evidence, the lyrics were allowed nearly 80. percent of tho time. B-As oxport witnesses who have testified in such cases, we have observed firsthand how prosecutors misrepresent rap music to judges and junes, who rarely understand the genre conventions of gangsta rap or the industry forces that-drive-aspiring rappers to adopt this style. . One common tactic is-to present a defendant's raps as- autobiography. Even when defendants use a stage name.to signal their creation of a fictional first-person narrator, rap about exploits.that -are exapgerated to the point of absurdity, and make use of-figurative language, prosecutors will insist that the lyrics are effectively rhymed-confessions. No other form-of -fictional expression is exploited this way-in the courts