Corey Maye capital punishment outrage story

[theliberalavenger]

As far as I can tell, there isn't a current Corey Maye story thread here.

This is the story in brief:<blockquote>Police executing a search warrant/drug raid on a house are unaware that the house is a duplex. The subject of the warrant is arrested, yet the raid team mistakenly enters the other side of the dwelling where a 23 year old black man (Corey Mayes) and his 18 month old daughter are sleeping. As it appears that the officers believed they were in the same dwelling it is thought that they did not reannounce their presence. The officers kick down the door to Mayes’ bedroom and he fires a shot, killing a white police officer - the son of the small town’s police chief. He is arrested. Apparently police acknowledge initially that there were no drugs in Maye’s apartment then the story shifts to them finding “traces” of marijuana and cocaine - possibly the remains of a smoked joint. In January, 2004, Mayes is tried and convicted by an all-white jury of capital murder and sentenced to death.</blockquote>

Radley Balko of The Agitator has been digging and posting new info on this story - he is clearly the lead on its coverage in the blogosphere:

http://www.theagitator.com/index.php

Please visit and recommend this Kos diary:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/11/21037/301

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