New at Reason: Radley Balko on Cory Maye's New Trial

November 23, 2009

Last week, the Mississippi Court of Appeals granted a new trial to Cory Maye, the 29-year-old Mississippi man convicted of murdering a police officer in 2001. The court ruled that Maye should have been allowed to move the trial back to the county where the shooting took place after Maye had initially requested it be moved elsewhere. Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko looks at the decision, and argues that the court ruled correctly that if he wants it, a defendant should have the right to be tried before a local jury.

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