Corrected: Someone breaking into your home without knocking, in the dead of night, USED to almost always be criminal, now it’s split 50/50….legal OR illegal criminals.

I thought the warrant was for the adjacent residence, not Maye’s home. So not only did they not knock on the door, it was the wrong door altogether.

The warrant situation is described in the brief, but I’ll try to summarize it.

There were two warrants at issue in the case. They were essentially identical, describing how to get to the duplex home on Mary Street. The only substantial difference between the two was that one was for a home occupied by Jamie Smith, and the other by “persons unknown.” Neither warrant otherwise said anything about which home it pertained to– no house number, no apartment number, nothing like left/right, or north/south. After the fact, someone (presumably a police officer) jotted down “Apt. 1″ on one warrant and “Apt. 2″ on the other.

The testimony at trial was that one of the police officers (Darryl Graves) knew that Jamie Smith lived in the left-hand (northern) home, so he took that warrant for that home, leaving the other for Cory’s. Neither one authorized no-knock service.

I hope that helps, but I suspect it just confuses things further. All of this is reflected in the brief, in an argument that the warrants lacked probable cause.

Chris Mallory

The man should have never been arrested in the first place. If he doesn’t get out of this, then there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell for anyone else down there.

I hope he gets out and sues the crap out of those idiots who kicked his door in and the state for wrongful arrest and conviction.

Damn, looks like Ole Mississippi just keeps it’s hand on the burner! DUH!@#$

thanks

The warrant to search Maye’s home, incidentally, was not a no-knock warrant.

I thought the warrant was for the adjacent residence, not Maye’s home. So not only did they not knock on the door, it was the wrong door altogether. That fact bolsters the point further that not only did police not knock, Corey had no reason to believe the police would have any reason to be at his door at all. He wasn’t a drug dealer. The police found a roach, a single marijuana cigarette butt, in an ashtray. And for this one life is tragically ended and another tragically taken away. This is the cost of the drug war.

I do know that they’re also representing several of the detainees in Guantanamo, too.

I just thought it was interesting when I read the name a few posts down in the gambling ban post. I guess it must be something testifying against legislation that powerful lobbyists help steamroll over millions of Americans, and then have the same lobbyists moonlight as Good Guys.