The Legal Defense Fund for Cory Maye

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

[Originally published on a weblog called “What Is Liberalism?”]

Ask yourself this, do you believe a man has the right to defend himself and his daughter when armed, unidentified intruders burst into his home in the middle of the night?

If you answer “yes” to that question, then you probably think Cory Maye does not deserve to be on death row. More info on the case here.

The legal defense fund for Cory Maye needs your help. Please remember what Bob Evans (Maye’s lawyer) said (on the page linked above) about the need for funding:

Defense funding would also be extremely helpful. Cory’s family, while obviously very concerned about him, are not financially able to obtain all the things that would be helpful in litigating his appeal. And while an indigent can, at the pretrial level, request the court’s financial assistance in obtaining things such as expert testimony (re: pathologist to discuss bullet path thru body and reasons that path does not jibe with Cory’s statement) and investigative help (for ex. to establish whether anyone else in the surrounding subdivision heard any of the cops announcing before entering), such assistance is not generally available at the appellate level where we now are. If others want to assist Cory in this manner, that would be fantastic.

I don’t care if you, personally, are on the left or right, politically, you should be offended by this case. If you are on the right, perhaps you’ll take offense at the government overriding a citizen’s right to self-defense. If you’re on the left, perhaps you’ll take offense at the racism that pervades this story. Either way, put your money where your mouth is and give something to the Cory Maye legal defense fund:

Cory May Justice Fund
c/o R.E. Evans
P.O. Box 636
Monticello, MS 39654

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    http://www.theagitator.com/archives/cat_cory_maye.php
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