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Thursday May 10, 2018
Thursday May 10, 2018
In this episode, Don West and Shawn Vincent talk about the Ted Wafer/Renisha McBride shooting.
Ted Wafer, a 54-year-old airport maintenance worker, fell asleep in front of the television in his Dearborn Heights home on the night of November 1, 2013. He lived alone in the house he had purchased in 1994. The intervening twenty years had seen many changes to the Detroit suburb -- including a rising crime rate. In the middle of the night (around 3:45 am), loud banging startled Wafer out of his sleep. The noise came first from the side door, then from the front door. It was a “boom, boom, boom pounding” his lawyer Cheryl Carpenter told jurors at trial. “The floor was shaking.”
Don and Shawn talk about the differences in this case from the past two cases that also happened in a residence, and the outcome of the trial.
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Additionally, the police developed a latent impression measuring approximately 4” square that matched the construction of the screen. McBride had injuries to her hands consistent with banging (hammer fist) shortly before her death. These facts pretty clearly indicate that McBride had access to the interior of the residence as soon as Wafer opened the door. Just food for thought.
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Pretty good, objective review of this case. One observation directly related to the defense though are comments related to the ”locked screen door”. While it’s true that the door was locked, the door was of the type that has a full length screen, whereby if the screen is not in place, one can simply walk through the locked door. When the police arrived, the screen was not in place, and the clips used to hold the screen in place were all broken.
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
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