The Georgia Supreme Court has tossed out a conviction over a judge’s words encouraging a man to plead guilty to charges related to a drive-by shooting of rapper Lil Wayne’s tour bus.

It was like a line in a Clint Eastwood movie, when detective Dirty Harry intimidates a suspect by daring him to shoot, saying, “Go ahead. Make my day,” criminal defense attorney Steve Sadow told the high court during oral arguments in February.

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