Stephanie (host)
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first heard Jul 2026
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They barred a retrial altogether, ruling that to try him again would amount to double jeopardy.
Jay Smith walked off death row now a free man, not because a court had found him innocent, but because the state had essentially cheated in convicting him.
Yeah, you didn't need to like exclude that.
Yeah.
It just shows that they were in on it together.
He spent his remaining years suing the people he blamed, of course, because this guy's a loser.
The state police and Joseph Wambaugh, who had written a book about the case, accusing them of conspiring to frame him.
He lost every suit.
The last in 2000.
And again and again, the courts that reexamine the evidence arrived at the same place, even setting aside the tainted hearsay and one suspect witness.
One appellate panel wrote its confidence in Smith's guilt was not the least bit diminished.
That's very telling.
Oh, appellate.
I'm sorry.
Appellate court.
Among the evidence the justices cited, a letter Smith had written to his wife asking her to destroy things that would incriminate him.
That's pretty damning evidence.
I know.
Jay Smith died in 2009, a free man.
His conviction legally erased.
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