Sacramento-based rapper C-BO is back in the news, this time turning up in an Ohio courtroom attempting to rap his way out of two 1996 charges for drug trafficking and gun possession.

Earlier this year, C-BO was arrested in California on the dubious charge that his violent rap lyrics somehow violated the terms of his parole. That case eventually splintered, and this time around C-BO's verbal skills came through for him in Ohio as he rapped his court statement to the presiding judge [article id="1441046"][500k QuickTime][/article].

It apparently worked as the judge gave C-BO probation on the condition that he next rap an anti-crime Public Service Announcement.