November 18, 2009 3:27PM 

# New Trial For Cory Maye 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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Great news — for a change! A Mississippi court has ordered a [new trial](http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091118/NEWS/911180360/1001/news/Retrial-ordered-in-officer-s-killing#pluckcomments) for Cory Maye.

When Cato author [Radley Balko](https://www.cato.org/people/radley-balko) was preparing his [report](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476) on violent, no-knock, drug raids, he discovered the case of Cory Maye, who was then on death row for murdering a police officer. On closer inspection, Radley thought the shooting looked like self-defense, not murder. At Maye’s initial trial, he had lousy legal representation. Thanks to Radley’s writings about the case, Maye secured top notch lawyers for his appeal. With a new trial, Maye now stands a very good chance of getting out of prison altogether. Congratulations to Radley Balko!

Previous coverage [here](https://www.cato.org/2006/09/25/the-cato-policy-analyst-who-may-have-saved-a-mans-life/).

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