Man to be in court for Oakland editor's murder { Yusuf Bey IV - Your Black Muslim Bakery }

AP via SFGate ^ | 5/29/9

[SmithL]

Oakland, Calif. (AP) -- A former community-group leader accused of ordering the murder of three men, including a newspaper editor, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday.

It'll be the third time Yusuf Bey IV will stand in front of a judge for the murder of Chauncey Bailey and two other men in 2007.

Bailey was an editor for the Oakland Post and working on a story about the finances of Bey's Your Black Muslim Bakery when he was gunned down on the way to work.

[PGalt]

BUMP for Chauncey Bailey!

[Aaron0617]

and bumping again. Thanks for the update. Hoping for justice for Bailey.

[PGalt]

Another BUMP for Chauncey! Thanks for posting, SmithL.

[Velveeta]

OAKLAND: BEY ARRAIGNMENT ON MURDER CHARGES IS POSTPONED A THIRD TIME

The arraignment of the man who headed the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery, on charges that he ordered the murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other men in the summer of 2007, was postponed today for the third time.

Yusuf Bey IV, 23, and co-defendant Antoine Mackey, also 23, are scheduled to return to Alameda County Superior Court on June 18 to be arraigned as well as for a hearing on whether a gag order in the case should be lifted and the grand jury transcript should be released to the public.

Judge Morris Jacobson said he postponed the arraignment because he wants to give the attorneys for Bey and Mackey time to read the lengthy transcript of the grand jury’s proceedings in the case, which led to Bey and Mackey being indicted on April 29. The transcript was just released to the lawyers in the case today, he said......

http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=POSTPONED-THIRD-TIME-baglm

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http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping and the update Vel.

I say YES, lift that gag order.

[PGalt]

Thanks for both links, Velveeta. I remember reading many of Chauncey Bailey’s articles when he worked in Detroit. I don’t recall any particular article of his and did not know of his politics (that didn’t catch my attention at the time), but I read him because he was an interesting and good writer.

His work on the bakery, may have been the most important work of his career and an indication of the type of journalist Chauncey Bailey was.