#278 Jason Flom with Walter Goudy

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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On October 3, 1993, 21-year-old Marvin McCloud was leaving an after-hours club in Anderson, Indiana, when he was shot and killed in his car by two gunmen, Romeo Lee and Khaidi Harvell, who drove off in Romeo's half brother Walter Goudy's car. Months later, Walter Goudy went to that after-hours club in the same car, and the police brought him in for a one-person show up in which a passenger in the car, Jill Barclay, identified Walter, mistaking him for Romeo. Initially, Walter was charged with murder and attempted murder, but the charges were dropped after 16 alibi witnesses placed Walter over 40 miles away at the time of the incident. Later that year, the lead detective Rodney Cummings was elected county prosecutor and re-indicted Walter. Regardless of the fact that Romeo Lee confessed, naming himself and Khaidi Harvell, who was also identified separately, Walter was still prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to 110 years in prison. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.facebook.com/finao.goudy https://www.instagram.com/myfinao1/ https://www.liveme.com/us/v/16495389031874715923/index.html?f=liveOMG https://www.civilrightsdefenders.com/ https://lavaforgood.com/with-jason-flom/ Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	On October 3rd, 1993, Walter Gowdy threw a party at his Indianapolis home.
0:08.5	His half-brother Romeo Lee and their shorter friend, Cady Harvall drove one of Walter's
0:13.0	cars to an after-hours club in Anderson, Indiana.
0:17.4	After an altercation outside, Romeo approached a car on the passenger side and Cady was on
0:22.4	the driver's side.
0:24.0	The driver was fatally shot and a passenger was wounded.
0:27.2	This is described the driver's side shooter as shorter than the other.
0:31.8	Months later, Walter Gowdy was put the same after-hours club in the same car and picked up by
0:36.3	Detective Roddy Cummings who put him into a one-man show-up where Walter was mistaken
0:41.3	for the passenger side shooter his half-brother Romeo.
0:44.9	Despite 16 alibi witnesses, Walter was charged with the murder.
0:49.8	But between Walter's overly suggestive ID and his strong alibi, the charges were dropped,
0:55.4	which did not sit well with Detective Cummings.
0:58.5	When Cady Harvall was later ID'd in a live lineup by three witnesses as the driver's side
1:02.8	shooter, he told Cummings that Walter was the driver's side shooter, not him, while placing
1:07.8	Romeo on the passenger side.
1:10.8	Detective Cummings ran for district attorney, one, and re-indicted Walter.
1:15.4	Despite Romeo's confession, naming Cady and himself, the state still forged ahead with
1:21.2	a prosecution based on conflicting witnesses.
1:24.7	Almost all misidentified Walter as his half-brother on the passenger side, except Cady, who placed
1:30.7	Walter in his place on the driver's side.
1:34.2	Walter was sentenced to 110 years in prison.
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