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The Case of Lamont Hunter
📻 Episode #485
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 17, 2024
About This Episode
January 18, 2006, 3-year-old Trustin Blue tumbled down his basement stairs in Cincinnati, OH, became unresponsive, and later brain dead. Trustin had been under the supervision of his mother’s boyfriend, Lamont Hunter, at the time of the incident. When Trustin was declared dead, the police began suspecting that Trustin had been raped and abused by…
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The Case
January 18, 2006, 3-year-old Trustin Blue tumbled down his basement stairs in Cincinnati, OH, became unresponsive, and later brain dead. Trustin had been under the supervision of his mother’s boyfriend, Lamont Hunter, at the time of the incident. When Trustin was declared dead, the police began suspecting that Trustin had been raped and abused by Lamont, and had not actually fallen down the stairs as Lamont claimed. The case against Lamont was centered around allegations of prior abuse against Trustin and the manner of Trustin’s injuries. Lamont was convicted and sentenced to death for the incident.
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00:05:35“Speaker 5: my father, hit my heroes work their fingers to the Speaker 5: bone to provide a good life for me and my siblings. Speaker 2: My childhood was amazing. Speaker 5: Like I always say, I was fortunate to be born Speaker 5: in a family that I was born in school. I”
00:21:05“Speaker 4: didn't hire an expert to look through the medical records. Speaker 6: And he didn't look through the records himself. Speaker 3: I mean, Lamont would have been better off with his Speaker 3: original court appointed attorney, not I mean much better off. Speaker 3: Because it turns out that mister Bennett was more than”
00:36:07“Speaker 2: Which would have been very hard, which we couldn't. Speaker 4: Do, I mean, So that was one problem. And then Speaker 4: the other problem was the prosecutor convinced the judge to Speaker 4: order no contact for Lamont with anyone under eighteen, so Speaker 4: that meant all of his nine grandchildren eight.”
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