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The Case of Ashunte & Willie Smith
📻 Episode #463
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 11, 2024
About This Episode
On April 8, 1995, Reggie Lewis’s body was found in a creek behind the Dalebridge Apartments in Warrensville Heights, OH. He had two gunshot wounds to the back of his head. Willie and Ashunte Smith are serving life sentences for his murder based on testimony by their own cousin, William Marshall. Marshall recanted in 2022…
The Case
On April 8, 1995, Reggie Lewis’s body was found in a creek behind the Dalebridge Apartments in Warrensville Heights, OH. He had two gunshot wounds to the back of his head. Willie and Ashunte Smith are serving life sentences for his murder based on testimony by their own cousin, William Marshall. Marshall recanted in 2022 and now swears it was actually his uncle who committed the crime but Marshall was so frightened at the time—by his uncle and the police—he was pressured into lying under oath and sending his cousins to prison.
The Ohio courts recently granted Willie and Ashunte a new trial.
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00:04:56“Speaker 1: married Don laster. They all lived close to each other, Speaker 1: while the Smiths lived about five miles away near the Speaker 1: victim in this case, Reggie Lewis. Speaker 5: I didn't know. I've seen you around the neighborhood. He Speaker 5: was definitely a reputation because at around his time, guys”
00:17:27“Speaker 3: You got to put yourself at the time when all Speaker 3: this is going on too. So it was a little Speaker 3: bit of hostility going on because of the oj situation, Speaker 3: you know, and his verdict that it just transpired three Speaker 3: days prior to my verdict. You got you know, CEOs”
00:29:35“Speaker 4: house with Reggie Lewis, and that he had been bullied Speaker 4: and pressured into saying it was them, because basically the Speaker 4: police were like, you will be gang raped every day, Speaker 4: best of luck to you. We're not going to protect Speaker 4: you from that. They use the term your asshole will”
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