Radley Balko | June 3, 2009
Tomorrow at 2:30pm ET, the Mississippi Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the Cory Maye case. You'll be able to stream the arguments live from the court's website.
To catch you up:
-- My 2006 Reason article on Maye's story.
-- Archive of TheAgitator.com posts about Maye.
-- Reason.tv documentary on Maye's case:
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He's not the first man unjustly prosecuted in Mississippi, and
I'm sure he won't be the last.
-jcr
I'm not the praying kind, although Cory wishes I were. Even so, my thoughts will be with him and his legal team tomorrow.
"Your Honour, I move that I be disbarred for introducing this evidence against my own clients."
If the state had made gun ownership illegal, Cory Maye wouldn't be in the fix he is now.
I have heard and read that the incarceration of innocents in
Guantanamo Bay creates terrorists.
How many terrorists will the incarceration of Cory Maye create?
I know this has been said here previously, but if one-tenth the
leftist outrage spent on Leonard Peltier or Mumia al-Jabar had been
gifted to Cory Maye, he might be free already, or at least have a
superpower legal team.*
*...not meant to insult the team he has.
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