Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
A couple of other points about the case I’ve learned from a quick lookover of the transcripts:
Police obtained a third warrant after the raid and death of Jones to go back to Maye’s apartment to look for more drugs. It was here that they found the marijuana in his apartment. Total amount of marijuana found? Less than an ounce. That’s why police broke down his door between 10 and 11pm at night, the day after Christmas. For less than an ounce of marijuana.
The jury retired to deliberate at 10:38am on January 23. By 11:49am, they had returned with a guilty verdict. At 2:20pm, the death penalty phase of the trial began. The jury retired for death penalty deliberations at 4:35pm. By 6pm they had returned with a death sentence. By 6:27pm, Maye was senteneced to death by the judge. So it took the jury just an hour and ten minutes to convict him, and just an hour and twenty-five minutes to sentence him to death. All in the same afternoon.
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