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Mississippi Supreme Court Grants Cory Maye a New Trial - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned an appellate court decision and granted Cory Maye a new trial. They determined that Maye was denied his rights by failure of the judge in the original trial to allow the defense to offer up a proper "defense of others" claim as well as supporting a lower courts assertion that Maye's rights were ignored by the judge in being denied a change of venue. More specifically, a waiver to remove a prior change of venue so that Maye could be tried in the town in which the shooting occurred.
Speaking of the drug war this is an interesting case. A man with no prior convictions nor named under suspicion shoots a police officer during a drug raid. Only a small amount of marijuana is found, not enough to indicate any activity in an illicit business, but a police officer winds up killed and a man with no prior convictions is sitting on death row for capital murder.
It will be an interesting new trial. Whether or not anyone will pay attention is another thing. The case has barely had any major media attention. You won't find the Fox bimbos discussing this, the MSNBC wannabe FOX bimbos parroting them or even the left wing Democracy Now talking about it. It's not like the issue of feeling safe in one's own home and the tactics used by police officers in barging into people's homes over the silliest reasons should be important or anything.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned an appellate court decision and granted Cory Maye a new trial. They determined that Maye was denied his rights by failure of the judge in the original trial to allow the defense to offer up a proper "defense of others" claim as well as supporting a lower courts assertion that Maye's rights were ignored by the judge in being denied a change of venue. More specifically, a waiver to remove a prior change of venue so that Maye could be tried in the town in which the shooting occurred.
Speaking of the drug war this is an interesting case. A man with no prior convictions nor named under suspicion shoots a police officer during a drug raid. Only a small amount of marijuana is found, not enough to indicate any activity in an illicit business, but a police officer winds up killed and a man with no prior convictions is sitting on death row for capital murder.
It will be an interesting new trial. Whether or not anyone will pay attention is another thing. The case has barely had any major media attention. You won't find the Fox bimbos discussing this, the MSNBC wannabe FOX bimbos parroting them or even the left wing Democracy Now talking about it. It's not like the issue of feeling safe in one's own home and the tactics used by police officers in barging into people's homes over the silliest reasons should be important or anything.