#338 Jason Flom with Dewayne Dunn

Wrongful Conviction

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On September 3, 2008, in Elkhart, IN, 60-year old Angel Torres was found unconscious and lying face down in a parking lot outside of his apartment complex with a baseball bat beneath him. When authorities arrived, Angel’s neighbor and friend, Dewayne Dunn, immediately rushed over and said that Angel had fallen down the stairs from a second-floor porch at the complex. Angel was taken to the hospital where it was discovered that he had suffered skull fractures and brain bleeding, and his blood-alcohol content was over three times the legal limit. He died two days later. Although the two eyewitnesses to the crime claim Dewayne is innocent, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 58 years in prison based on the testimony of questionable expert witnesses.

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0:33.7	At 10 pm on September 3rd, 2008, 46-year-old Dwayne Dunn returned to his Elkhart, Indiana apartment.
0:40.6	He joined his girlfriend, Lita Sims, and their next-door neighbor, 60-year-old Angel Torres,
0:45.3	who were having a few beers. The man's friendly conversation eventually turned into an argument,
0:50.4	and Angel pulled out a bat. It should have ended when Dwayne and Lita left Angel's apartment,
0:55.8	but a few minutes later Dwayne and Angel found each other again on their shared second-story deck,
1:00.8	abutted by a rickety set of stairs. Angel began swinging the bat at Dwayne who was over her telling
1:06.4	Angel to stop. Just before a series of audible thumps and thuds, the sounds of Angel falling
1:12.4	down the stairs. Police soon arrived to find Dwayne hovering over Angel as blood began to pull.
1:18.8	He was rushed to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries a few days later.
1:23.5	For two years Dwayne swore in police statements and again a trial that he had neither pushed
1:28.6	Angel Torres nor beaten him at the bottom of those stairs. Yet the state's expert witnesses disagreed,
1:35.2	which appeared to be ironclad proof of Dwayne Dunn's guilt. But this is wrongful conviction.
1:48.3	Welcome back to wrongful conviction. Today we're going to go back to Elkhart County,
2:00.1	Indiana, a place once known as the RV capital of the world, but after what we've seen going on there,
2:06.4	it could arguably be called the Per capita wrongful conviction capital of the world. We're going to
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