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The Case of Eron Shelman
📻 Episode #432
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Mar 04, 2024
About This Episode
One day in May of 1992, 19-year-old Eron Shelman was driving around Detroit, MI with three of his buddies. Eron was at the wheel with his friend Antonio Knight beside him when suddenly, a shot rang out, and Antonio fell over, dead. “I almost crashed the car,” Eron recalls. “I had my dearest friend laying…
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The Case
One day in May of 1992, 19-year-old Eron Shelman was driving around Detroit, MI with three of his buddies. Eron was at the wheel with his friend Antonio Knight beside him when suddenly, a shot rang out, and Antonio fell over, dead. “I almost crashed the car,” Eron recalls. “I had my dearest friend laying in my lap, bleeding out the back of his head.” Despite someone else confessing to the shooting, Eron was convicted of Antonio’s murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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00:04:50“Speaker 2: this or making you do that. You know, so you Speaker 2: tend to start running with people that you should. Speaker 1: And so what was that in your neighborhood? What was Speaker 2: It was a lot. It just was it was, you know, Speaker 2: guys that did this and guys that did that, drug dealing,”
00:19:14“Speaker 3: and his testimony was incredible. There were lots of ways Speaker 3: to impeach him and discredit him, just using conflicts in Speaker 3: his own testimony, conflicts between what he said a trial Speaker 3: and at the exam, the fact that he had charges pending, Speaker 3: the fact that he was facing the homicide charge initially,”
00:33:10“Speaker 1: sixty years, and thanks to good behavior, he was released Speaker 1: after serving less than twenty five years of that and Speaker 1: he had already tried to help Eron. Speaker 3: Andre Rice has been out for over a decade after Speaker 3: he was released, he wrote up an affidavit. So when”
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