well it looks like the case of corey may it's coming to a close he spent ten years behind bars he had been sentenced to death by a jury but now may soon going to be heading home on a sever twenty six of two thousand and one of them twenty on twenty one year old may was at home with his daughter drifting off to sleep when he heard the sounds of a group breaking into his home and i guess we could describe his fear paternal instincts confusion may fired his gun at that point he realized that his shot. police officer after which he threw his gun down and surrendered but he didn't kill just any officer it was the police chief's son and this wasn't just any part of america it wasn't just mississippi criminal justice and racism are known to go hand in hand he was convicted of murder for the intentional killing of a police officer and sentenced to death in january of two thousand and four but years later a few bloggers a few journalists to look into the case and found that the word justice didn't seem to fit two years later after the regret relentless work of may's family of attorneys of jour

now tonight we'll speak with radley balko about the case of corey may right on death row who just got his life back and rallies reporting had something to do with it also speak with rapper marcel carty a who is releasing a new album about the war in libya and a look at the political circus that is washington d.c. we're going to have all of that and happy hour for you tonight but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. you know yesterday i thought first second that there was some hope for this world because i thought of the casey anthony trial was finally going to add but boy did i think wrong there's been a major interruption in the casey anthony murder trial judge belvin perry calling an indefinite recess so the defense can question the prosecution's witnesses casey anthony's murder trial is in recess indefinitely that unexpected move came from the judge just two hours ago our david mattingly he's outside the courthouse in orlando david this is somewhat surprising well consider this ok the day a new issue in calls fifty nine witnesses for nineteen days and th

family how many countless other innocent americans are certain kind behind bars how many other corey mays are there out there ones whose stories we have not heard now i don't know the answer those questions but let's see if my next guest can offer some perspective then bernie as one of the attorneys who represented corey may who helped bring bring corey to justice ben thank you so much for taking time to join us today so thank you for having justice served well it was a very bittersweet result because cory was innocent and he ended up taking a clear culpable negligent homicide which is a form of manslaughter in mississippi so. we were not happy about that at all on the other hand he was released with time served and so he's free to spend time with his children which is really what he was his top early was he wanted to get out so he could be a father right right of course now with all due respect i was reading a little bit about your bio and you seem like a pretty expensive high power washington attorney what made you see this case and say you know what this is this is something that i wan

teeth police and that fact that corey is black may be stored with feeling raw police found enough marijuana for a one hundred dollars fine but corey was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in just two hours by a jury of ten whites in two black out of more of the i'm innocent listen to the trooper i feel like the true google search. so. i would never would have thought they would be what they'd done to. take me to the way they'd be . something like this it was that. they had to do this there's nothing else never would have the warrant for the raid was based entirely on a tip from this quote reliable police informant. there were reports. that this entry did as huge favor velo even that race the story because it became very valuable in the pursuit of this but still spent nine and a half years in prison three on death row before he won his appeal and eventually his freedom when his mother came to me jorge happens to be the same age as my oldest son i went studio. and i couldn't help but think you know that i could be mushrooms for defending corey evans was fired as princes public

stepping right there corey may his story he spent years in prison after shooting a police officer there at a no knock warrant case but he was recently free events night we're going to.

it's a day corey may has waited nearly a decade. the day he can wrap his arms around his kid. i waited a long time just to have a world. we don't have to see behind it was like the saying we're going to take the time they. should do with it and it is mother's cooking. things corey could only dream up from his cell and death row. something had to go and terrible to roll after the fall for. this but in his character it really took a fall a real. hero murdered but i always feel my will one day. he was coming home cory story begins here on december twenty sixth two thousand and one when police executed a warrant against his neighbor jamie smith before proceeding to his side of the duplex what happened next would change corey's life forever corey says he was asleep when police broke down the door looking for drugs came in the someone you know this is actually her son warbird in your house when the little girl. was crying and defending his eighteen month old daughter corey says he hid behind her bed and fired three shots killing prentiss police officer ron jones he was white drove o

still to come right here corey may his story he spent years in prison after shooting a police officer during a no knock warrant case but he was recently free then tonight we're going to report on the case and look at the practice of no knock warrants will be back in testimony . seven thirty am in moscow these are your are two you have lines billing and not killing lands you were a security contractor blackwater and core two former employees accuse the company now rebranded as z. of invoicing the state department for more. and a hundred million dollars in phony expenses many are criticizing u.s. authorities for pursuing this case instead of following up accusations that contractor committed atrocities against civilians in iraq and afghanistan. the region intelligence denies claims by the suspect of two deadly terror attacks in the country last friday that he's part of a wider group a lot of stories in europe are on their guard after his anti immigration message is echoed by extremist groups across the continent anders breivik is accused of killing at least seventy six people at a bomb

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it's a day corey may has waited nearly a decade. the day he could wrap his arms around his kids. i mean with long time ago this would have been well. we don't have to see behind it was like say we're going to take. a little. bit of that should be with you and eat his mother's cooking. it was great could only dream from his cell death row . bump than to the old chair with a roll after probably already. this but in his character it really took the fall a real. deal. but i always say on my will one day. he was coming home cory story begins here on december twenty sixth two thousand and one with police executed a warrant against jamie smith before proceeding to his side of the duplex what happened next would change corey's life forever corey says he was asleep when police broke down the door looking for drugs pain meds in the someone you know this is actually a half year old son will break into your house when the little girl. is trying to defending his eighteen month old daughter corey says he hid behind her back and fired three shots killing prince is clear. sophos or ron jones he

is hurting him i still don't think this is a mogul who's coming down soon well corey you were turning in in a lawsuit that may have some impact on. mr murdoch's media is tolls it tolls what happened the decision they came down today from the court of appeals was a resoundingly victory for the public interest back in two thousand and seven the f.c.c. tried to cut ownership restrictions that would allow greater consolidation at the local level between newspapers and broadcast stations your entire local media could be dominated by a single voice as a spectator in the michael powell the action of the subsequent chairman kevin martin but this is not unrelated to that the court today said the f.c.c. to bad job it rejects those rules threw them out and really i think made a sweeping decision on behalf of the public interest which is that media ownership limits are critically important to ensuring that we have competition and diversity in the media so that media companies can get so powerful that they can corrupt and influence government you know the third circuit is not you know considered wildly liberal or wildly c

the corporate media no matter how much they may dislike ron paul will not be able to ignore him forever and it looks like folks and i all are going to either corey adams the story county g.o.p. chair is officially endorsed dr paul this is a key because story county is of course home to the city of ames over fifty thousand islands and the ames straw poll the straw poll is often considered one of the first determinants for who will be the front runner in the g.o.p. presidential race but when ron wins the party leadership of course will just declared irrelevant you know like the seebeck point on his endorsement korean and said i tried to go for the candidates that line up mostly with the values the principles of the nation's founders out of all the candidates in this cycle i found ron parts of me the one with the longest most consistent voting record to back up those principles and concepts run himself riding on a wave of confidence from yes its supporters and fresh indorsements doesn't want to sound overly sure of himself but he's keeping optimistic about his chances in the upcoming poll there's more enthusiasm of the people that are true believer