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The Case of Marty Levingston
📻 Episode #480
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Sep 30, 2024
About This Episode
On December 28, 2007, a young man was shot and killed outside an apartment complex in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ten days later, an eyewitness identified Marty Levingston as the gunman, and eventually, a jailhouse snitch would point to him too. Though the eyewitness expressed doubt at trial, Marty was sentenced to 15 to life for a…
The Case
On December 28, 2007, a young man was shot and killed outside an apartment complex in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ten days later, an eyewitness identified Marty Levingston as the gunman, and eventually, a jailhouse snitch would point to him too. Though the eyewitness expressed doubt at trial, Marty was sentenced to 15 to life for a murder he consistently maintained he did not commit.
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Thank you to Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael P. Donnelly and Ohio Innocence Project attorney, Donald Caster, for participating in this episode.
The Dark Plea: One of the Most Coercive Abuses of Power Permitted in the Criminal Justice System
Ohio Innocence Project
https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/422-maggie-freleng-with-angela-garcia/
In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.
00:04:10“Speaker 1: Marty says. He started getting into trouble for things like Speaker 2: I start trying to find myself at that time, Like, Speaker 2: you know, my father was away at the time, and Speaker 2: so like I'm trying to find you know, where was Speaker 2: your dad at the time. My dad was incarcerated.”
00:15:37“Speaker 2: up there. They go your mom? Alaugh, oh you you Speaker 2: put your this and that? Like but when I look Speaker 2: back now, I'm like, I should have put my mom Speaker 1: So I went up there for you. Speaker 2: No one, no, no one.”
00:27:53“Speaker 2: just go I'm just get out. I'm just go get out. Speaker 2: I'm just gonna get out and prove them wrong and Speaker 2: show them wrong. Like nah, I'm I'm no. I was Speaker 2: not who y'all who? I was not that, So you Speaker 2: took it, y'all took it.”
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