CORY MAYE UPDATE: SOME EXCELLENT NEWS: “After 10 years of incarceration, and seven years after a jury sentenced him to die, 30-year-old Cory Maye will soon be going home. Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Prentiss Harrell signed a plea agreement Friday morning in which Maye pled guilty to manslaughter for the 2001 death of Prentiss, Mississippi, police officer Ron Jones, Jr. Per the agreement, Harrell then sentenced Maye to 10 years in prison, time he has now already served. Maye will be taken to Rankin County, Mississippi, for processing and some procedural work. He is expected to be released within days.”

While personally I don’t think that Maye should have served time in prison at all for what seems to have been a tragic mistake in the course of a botched no-knock raid, this is about as good as could realistically be expected. Some background here. And here’s a collection of InstaPundit posts on the case going back several years.