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The Continuing Saga of Steven Hayne

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Radley Balko's post at Reason.  It's subtitled, "The latest developments in the story of America's most industrious medical examiner."  Here's the beginning of the report: Last week the Mississippi Supreme Court granted a new trial to Cory Maye, who is serving a life sentence for shooting and killing Prentiss, Mississippi, police officer Ron Jones during a botched drug raid on Maye's apartment. One of the key prosecution witnesses in Maye's case was Steven Hayne, an overworked, ethically dubious medical examiner who performed the overwhelming majority of criminal autopsies in Mississippi for two decades, from the late 1980s until 2008. Although last week's ruling did not address Hayne's work, it presents an opportunity to consider recent developments in Mississippi's slow evolution toward a more competent death investigation system...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).