The Case of Kevin Dykes

📻 Episode #217
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 11, 2021

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About This Episode

This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 14, 2020.

The Case

This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 14, 2020.

In June 1986, Kevin Dykes witnessed the attempted murder of 2 people and the actual murder of a 3rd person in his neighborhood in Compton, CA. Kevin decided to go to the police, partly out of fear of reprisals by the killers who knew he witnessed the murder. The prosecutors then used his knowledge of the crimes that he witnessed against him and charged him with all 3 crimes.

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00:04:29
“Speaker 5: my family. Even to the day, still feel on the Speaker 5: same street. Although the family had forgiven me, written me Speaker 5: letters will come to see me. When I got out, Speaker 5: I saw what I did to that family, and I Speaker 5: didn't know how to proster. Although my mother and my”

00:18:11
“Speaker 4: sounds good, Okay, I'll put you on the witness list, Speaker 4: mister White. So about a week or two later, I Speaker 4: get the witness list from the district attorney and Leslie Speaker 4: White is on there as a people's witness. And not Speaker 4: only that, I get a report that says that Kevin”

00:32:25
“Speaker 4: to make a decision to get Kevin out. So I suggested, well, Speaker 4: how about if I file another rid of habeas corpus Speaker 4: and if the district attorney doesn't oppose it, then the Speaker 4: judge can grant him a new trial. And once he”

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