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Still misinformed... (none / 0) (#52)
by Radley Balko on Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 09:15:59 PM EST
The identity of the informant wasn't discovered until four years after the trial, by a private investigator hired by Cory's defense team.  Therefore, the jury heard nothing about the fact the "trustworthy and reliable" informant (as he was described on the warrant) was unapologetically racist, or that that he has continually changed his story about what happened that night.

From the raid until the informant was discovered the prosecution had said we'd "never know" the identity of the informant.  Why was that?  Because, they said, Officer Jones conducted the investigation, and only Officer Jones knew the identity of the informant, and Officer Jones is dead.  Curiously, he apparently took no notes, and kept no records of his investigation.  Sound credible to you?

Your comment about my work on SWAT teams is also misinformed.  This raid wasn't conducted by a SWAT team.  It was conducted by an ad hoc group of police officers assembled at the last minute by Officer Jones.  Jones himself had no experience serving narcotics warrants.  Cory's door was kicked open not by a trained narcotics veteran, but by a volunteer police officer.  

And yes, the informant's testimony last fall does raise significant questions about the legality of the warrant--questions that weren't raised at trial in 2003.

I haven't even touched on the other troubling parts of the trial, such as the testimony of the medical examiner, who is nearly universally known among his peers to be a shill for prosecutors.

Finally, I'm not the least bit concerned about what Patterico, a prosecutor, thinks of my work. I wouldn't expect him to be terribly fond of it.  

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this (none / 0) (#53)
by Jeralyn on Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 09:29:32 PM EST
"Finally, I'm not the least bit concerned about what Patterico, a prosecutor, thinks of my work. I wouldn't expect him to be terribly fond of it."

is far more accepting of him than I would be. I wouldn't read, quote or rely on anything that blogger-prosecutor writes.  

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I ask again (none / 0) (#64)
by Patrick on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 12:04:35 PM EST
You still haven't said where I'm misinformed. Could you please answer that question?

From the raid until the informant was discovered the prosecution had said we'd "never know" the identity of the informant.  Why was that?

That's an easy one, the prosecution didn't know who the informant was.  Do you have evidence from the PI that indicates otherwise?

Your comment about my work on SWAT teams is also misinformed.  This raid wasn't conducted by a SWAT team.  It was conducted by an ad hoc group of police officers assembled at the last minute by Officer Jones.

yes it wasn't a SWAT team, but I didn't say that.  I said your work.  That being said, you oppose vehemently SWAT style police tactics of which this was one.  I also doubt the Pearl River Narcotics team is an ad hoc team, but whatever, it's hadlr a salient point.  

And if you care less what Patterico says about you, why do you respond time and time again?  

Really, the only point I ask you to address is where am I misinformed.  

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I've pointed out... (none / 0) (#65)
by Radley Balko on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 12:31:38 PM EST
...several points where you're misinformed.

Here's yet another:

That being said, you oppose vehemently SWAT style police tactics of which this was one.  I also doubt the Pearl River Narcotics team is an ad hoc team, but whatever, it's hadlr a salient point.

I find it hard to believe you actually read the trial transcripts, as you say you did.  This raid was not conducted by the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force.  Officer Ron Jones directed this raid himself, with the help of five other officers he cobbled together over a couple of hours.  Only one of the six was a member of the task force. The raid was not conducted as part of the task force, or with the blessing of the task force, or under the auspices of the task force.  They didn't use task force equipment.  Other than one of its members volunteering to ride along, the task force had nothing to do with it.

If you're unclear on an aspect of the case that's this basic and fundamental, I find it hard to believe you're as read up on the case as you claim to be.

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Radley (none / 0) (#66)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 12:34:56 PM EST
do you know of any links to court and police docs? I couldn't find any on your site.

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mayisinnocent.com used to have (none / 0) (#67)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 12:36:19 PM EST
lots of docs, but that site seems to be gone now.

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Radley says.... (none / 0) (#68)
by Patrick on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 07:06:08 PM EST
If you're unclear on an aspect of the case that's this basic and fundamental, I find it hard to believe you're as read up on the case as you claim to be.

But it took him until December 21, 2005 to "clarify" that fact for himself. Hell, even Maye's attorney thought it was true.  So I guess that makes him misinformed as well.  I guess you weren't as read up the case as you claimed to be either.  I guess that's what I get for not checking your facts.  

Here's the pertinent part....

I originally reported that the raid was largely conducted by the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force, who asked Officer Jones to come along. That came from my conversations with Rhonda Cooper, Maye's first attorney, as well as a December 29, 2001 article from the Hattiesburg American which said that Jones conducted the raid with "eight other officers who were also from the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force and the Jefferson Davis County Sheriff's Department."

That article wasn't quite right, and neither was I.

As it turns out, only one officer from the narcotics task force went along on the raid. Jones seems to have assembled an ad-hoc team of eight police officers to conduct the raid, including himself;



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