#305 Jason Flom with Raymond Allan Warren

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On July 10, 1994, Wendell Scott Simpson was found dead in his car on Kilmer Street in Dayton, OH. Shortly after police arrived, they encountered 16 year old Raymond Allan Warren who also lived on Kilmer street. Warren told the police that he and his friends Antonio Johnson and Chante Hunt saw Simpson looking to buy drugs earlier that day. Police later questioned Johnson and Hunt who were both pressured into testifying that Warren was the shooter. By relying on the testimony of 2 minors and a questionable gunshot residue test, the state convicted Warren of one count of murder and sentenced him to life in prison.

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0:00.0	On July 10th, 1994, 16-year-old Raymond Allen Warren and two friends were walking down
0:07.7	Kilmer Street in Dayton, Ohio.
0:10.1	A car swerved up and the driver asked them for drugs, but they were not drug dealers.
0:15.0	The trio continued on to one of the friend's houses to fix a flat tire on Raymond's motorized
0:19.3	scooter.
0:20.5	They heard gunshots in the distance behind them.
0:23.4	After fixing the flat, Raymond rode back to his grandmother's on Kilmer Street, where
0:27.4	he saw that a car had crashed into one of her neighbor's houses.
0:31.1	The driver had been fatally shot.
0:33.2	A role of counterfeit bills laid next to him.
0:36.2	When questioned by cops on the scene, Raymond told them about the drug solicitation.
0:40.8	He was then taken to the station to give a statement.
0:43.8	After submitting to a gunshot residue test, he was released.
0:47.0	The palm of his non-dominant hand tested positive for two elements associated with gunplay.
0:52.9	According to what was considered reliable science at the time, the presence of those
0:56.8	elements could mean one of only three things that Raymond had either fired a gun, handled
1:01.5	ammunition, or was the victim of gun violence.
1:04.8	This gave police more than enough confidence to coerce the two other children with the
1:09.0	threat of their own prosecution to implicate their friend.
1:13.0	The same strain of expert testimony presented at his trial had been heard by countless
1:17.6	juries for decades, and at least a decade more thereafter, until some startling realizations
1:23.6	about the reliability of gunshot residue testing were finally made.
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