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The Case of Ricardo Gray
📻 Episode #451
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 30, 2024
About This Episode
In September of 1998, a shooting took place in Cleveland Ohio’s Kinsman neighborhood resulting in one fatality. According to eyewitness testimony, Ricardo Gray was identified as the shooter. The existence of another potential suspect was ignored by the prosecution during trial, and Ricardo was sentenced to 23 years to life in prison. It has now…
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The Case
In September of 1998, a shooting took place in Cleveland Ohio’s Kinsman neighborhood resulting in one fatality. According to eyewitness testimony, Ricardo Gray was identified as the shooter. The existence of another potential suspect was ignored by the prosecution during trial, and Ricardo was sentenced to 23 years to life in prison. It has now been 26 years, and even though the persuading eyewitness testimony from two individuals has now been recanted, Ricardo Gray remains incarcerated.
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00:04:09“Speaker 1: relationship with the guys up on Kinsman Road, about a Speaker 1: half a mile away. Speaker 4: We right up the street from each other. We always Speaker 4: ended up getting to it with each other about something Speaker 4: about nothing for real, but if they make it something.”
00:15:02“Speaker 4: For a minute, you have one minute remaining here, right, Speaker 4: I'm still in this damn place, man. But I got Speaker 4: all the facts to prove what the hell going on, Speaker 4: and I'm still in here. They sent me strike to Lucasville, Speaker 4: twenty years old. Man, with all these killers and racists.”
00:25:30“Speaker 6: who the actual wrong doer is. And really he should Speaker 6: have had a hearing in two thousand and two when Speaker 6: these initial affidavids came forward, but his judge denied him. Speaker 6: The Court of Appeals just constantly affirms what the trial Speaker 6: judge does and the fact that he remains in prison.”
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