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The Case of Jason Walton
📻 Episode #426
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Feb 12, 2024
About This Episode
On a November Sunday in 2005, two 14-year-olds were shot outside of a street carnival in South Central Los Angeles, CA. One of the teenagers died, but the surviving victim and other individuals identified 21-year-old Jason Walton as the gunman. Despite having been seen on video surveillance footage miles from the scene at the time,…
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The Case
On a November Sunday in 2005, two 14-year-olds were shot outside of a street carnival in South Central Los Angeles, CA. One of the teenagers died, but the surviving victim and other individuals identified 21-year-old Jason Walton as the gunman. Despite having been seen on video surveillance footage miles from the scene at the time, and with no physical evidence linking him to the crime, Jason was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. Jason believes police never bothered investigating other leads.“I don't feel like they ultimately cared about the victim nor myself,” says Jason, speaking by phone from California State Prison. “It's like, “Well, one gang member's dead, one gang member's shot, one gang member's in jail. We got a three for one in a way.”
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:05:46“Speaker 1: He says, the older members of the gang were actually Speaker 1: a good influence. Speaker 2: They never told me anything wrong. They always encouraged me Speaker 2: to stay in school. So they're dropping me off at school, Speaker 2: they're picking me up from school, we're going on these trips.”
00:21:17“Speaker 5: The prosecution's theory at the time of trial was that Speaker 5: Jason had had this prior interaction about a month before Speaker 5: the crime, where he got in an argument with Edward Williams. Speaker 5: And that's the only interaction that Jason ever had with Speaker 5: Edward Williams. And so the prosecution alleged that this interaction”
00:35:54“Speaker 1: Green actually saw the, shooting how Did Richard gray become Speaker 1: the prosecution star? Speaker 5: Witness so in our subsequent post conviction, investigation what we Speaker 5: learned is That green went and Told gray everything that he, Speaker 5: saw And gray then either trying to be the savior”
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