WHAT DISGUSTING SLIMEBALL PIECES OF TRASH YOU ARE.

Wow cops come to the wrong house so this worthless subhuman piece of dog dirt is justified in shooting them?

YOU ALL DESERVE TO DIE. HAve done nothing in your lives and only stop raping kids to post here.

You hate cops. I hate criminals.

It has nothing to do with the piece of trash's race. HE KILLED A COP!

Simple as this. Let the worthless piece of trash cop killer move next door to you.

PLEASE STOP RAPING KIDS you slimeballs. EVERY ANTI COP PERSON RAPES KIDS.

I read the Balko links. I was impressed with his actually getting out there and pounding the pavement. I was less impressed with his amateur speculation about ballistics evidence and harassing of the jurors (just the black ones?) But, I agree that this is not a case that should have been a death penalty prosecution or verdict, so I wish him good luck in that.

Further, this bit of information Radley got from somebody local is quite telling,

Look, I know this fella and you're right, he is unreliable and not very credible. Very much a racist. I can't tell you how many times I have heard "hate niggers" come out of his mouth. Credibility should be thrown right out. Ask Mr. Gentry about his music tapes he has about bashing blacks. I am telling you this man is totally out to get blacks. He has stated in the past he would rat out a "nigger" in a heart beat. He is just a senile old man. Good luck.

Yep, that is who I'd want as an informant when I build a case...and since it was only Gentry that put the cops out there and in Maye's house, then it looks even worse, IMO. Is it inflammatory? Sure as Hell is, but it would be no matter what because it looks very much like Gentry is a good old fashion racist.

Then there was the behavior towards the lead attorney. To call it intimidation is more than a bit of an understatement. The fact that the real drug dealer they were supposedly after just disappeared. In most cases where you have a wrong door raid, the actual target is usually arrested, and peacefully, by a couple of cops knocking on the right door and taking the suspect into custody.

He shot an illegal, armed intruder. Give Maye a medal and send him home.

The informant's race-hate thing is an interesting angle, but the appeal (rimshot!) is as irrational (if less harmful) as the assumed irrationality of the "ten whites" jury who made such a grave decision based on the race of the players.

The police didn't go to the house that the hater told them to go to. How is the haters hate especially relevant? The case against Maye is about what the police and Maye did when they went to the wrong house. If this was a case against Maye for possessing drugs, the hate might be relevant to the validity of the warrant and, if a judge believed the informant lacked reliability it could lead to the exclusion of the drugs, whether they executed the warrant at the proper address or not, but in the murder case its not relevant. I suppose you could make an argument in the civil case against the PD that they negligently relied on the informant and this wouln't have happened but for.

The Gentry hate angle is really inflammatory while it has extremely limited relevance.

In the "good old days," Maye would've been lynched by now. Who says Miss. hasn't made progress?

I agree that its not a fact pattern I'd expect for a death penalty case, but I wasn't on the jury.

But since a jury appears to've found otherwise, Maye probably will end up doing some time as you say.

Glad to see that Judge Eubanks appears to be doing the right thing thus far; I've got a civil case in front of him, tho I can't pretend to know him, & he's seemed very fair-minded (even when we didn't want him to be).