Decatur, Ala. | Sunday, May 26, 2013
Decatur murder detailed
Officer says victim carried machete, was drug dealer; case going to grand jury
Houston Glenn Blackwood was holding a machete when he answered his apartment door June 2 before being shot to death, a Decatur Police Department detective said Monday. Sgt. George Silvestri said … More »
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Mr. Mays, what world do you live in? In my world MURDER is MURDER, a man is dead because of your client.

Society doesn't care what type of MURDER it is.

Keep their butts in jail where they belong.

And put Mr. Mays in there for a couple days while you are at it.

Amen yeah. Amen.

The court system and law in the USA complicates everything, its called billing by the minute. Win, lose or draw the attorney is paid.

How do lawyers sleep at night? Here they are, doing everything in their power to PREVENT justice from being done. They WANT TO RELEASE THREE CONFESSED MURDERERS BACK INTO OUR CITY!! These sleezeballs should be SHUNNED by all!!!

I would hate to make my living defending thugs and dealing with them daily would permeate your delirium .

Our system of justice relies upon a presumption of innocence, and mandates a defense. There can be no conviction without a defense lawyer. If you don't like this system of justice, you can advocate to change it to a presumption of guilt, or move to a country where you don't have the right to a defense, but you sound ignorant blaming lawyers for doing their jobs.

No what is Ignorant is letting confessed murderers out of jail so they can harm someone else and sell more drugs and rob people and break and steal to pay their lawyers and friends to lie for them - - that is what is totally Ignorant - - they are guilty they confessed why turn them loose - - they don,t want trayvons shooter loose so why are they any better ? they killed they will kill again if let loose

AL and Jesse and Doris will be down there demonstrating and NAACP will have to stick their nose in and New Black Panthers

they will all go free Even Obamie will be here soon

Did I hear Obamie say these look like the boys that should have been my kids ?

Are these comments left by adults? If so, you must be uneducated at best! In order to provide the correct justice, the law provides that they be given an attorney and represented. If not, THEY WILL GO FREE for violating their rights as AMERICAN CITIZENS.

And t-bone, you have got to be the dumbest person I've ever read comments behind! At the end of the day...."Obama is the President" so suck it up and shut it up! You remind me of those classless act you keep trying to describe! You do not even have respect for our Commander in Chief....that tell me a lot about you! Why don't you use your real name and let us run a back ground check on you...let me guess what would show up....bad credit, (you don't pay people you owe) draws government checks (won't work), previous arrest (no better than the next) divorced (no woman could put up with you), high school drop out (dumb as a box of rocks)...etc..... I bet this is your background!

Amen to M and Herman!!!!!

I wish people would post educated comments instead of all the negativity.

They are only asking to release the two that did not do the shooting. Wilson is apparently the one who did the shooting, the other two were just there. Don't know if they knew Wilson was going to shoot Blackwood or if they were just suppose to rob him. All of you who are blaming the lawyers "M" is right...they are doing their jobs whether we like it or not. But, if a child of yours was somehow involved in something like this, you would love to have a lawyer do their job to try to get them off, if they did NOT pull the trigger. Just saying...

Donna--"just there"---it is called robbery and to participate in a crime even if you do not physically commit the murder you are still eligible to be charged with murder.

Bond, okay, set it at$100k-- $1m......if they can afford bond then they do not need court appointed attorneys.

It is amazing, these thugs commit crime after crime, get shot, stabbed, can not afford a defense attorney, and what do we do as a society----heal them and defend them.....when they heal or hit the streets they continue victimizing the very public/tax payers that paid for their medical and their attorney fees......I say if you have a juvie record you get no bond when it comes to murder.....heck they are probably on a cell phone sitting in jail smoking weed while posting on facebook. This gives them status in the gang---they call it putting in or doing work.....THUGS/CRIMINALS and they don't want to change. Everyone involved in this case are thugs to include........

DEAR LORD! they confessed for lords sake. whether it was a robbery, a murder, a man has to answer his door with a machete ( not uncommon now days, however most people have guns..nothing to do with drug dealing, just dont trust no one, too many are too lazy to work for things they need or want so they rob & kill) they start at this age & learn quickly how easy it is to get away with it, therefore leading to a life of crime. what if this was a hate crime? then mr.blacks mom & dad could act like teyvons parents & the rest of the world did. DRAMA. lol

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