Who is Andre Dow? Rapper convicted in 2005 double murder seeks second trial

Who is Andre Dow? Rapper convicted in 2005 double murder seeks second trial
Rapper Mac Minister convicted in Las Vegas double murder says he is innocent (Mac Minister of Defense album cover/ Smc Recordings)

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: A rapper who was found guilty of two murders claims his conviction was unjustified and is seeking a second trial. Andre Dow, better known as Mac Minister, was convicted in 2008 in connection with the 2005 deaths of two Kansas City rappers, Anthony 'Fat Tone' Watkins and Jermaine 'Cowboy' Aikens. 'Mac Minister' is currently serving a life sentence. 

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“They gave me four lives without the possibility of parole,” Dow said in a phone call with the 8 News Now Investigators from prison. “I don’t know who killed Fat Tone.” After hearing Dow on a podcast insisting on his innocence, Lateef Gray, a former San Francisco prosecutor who knew Dow from the neighborhood where he grew up, decided to look into the matter. He claimed to have found out that Antoine Mouton, the witness who said that Dow testified that Dow made incriminating claims to him in Las Vegas, was actually being held in Georgia at the time. Since then, Mouton has changed his story.