Walter D Smith

First Name	Walter D
Last Name	Smith
Year of Conviction	1986
Year of Exoneration	1996
State of Conviction	Ohio
Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea	Trial
Type of Crime	Rape
Death Sentence	No
Gender of Exoneree	Male
Race of exoneree	Black
Juvenile	No
Did the defendant testify at trial?	No
Types of evidence at trial	Eyewitness
Identity of eyewitness	Cross Racial Identification Victim
Multiple eyewitnesses	3
Lineup Procedures	Lineup
Suggestive Procedures	No (unknown)
Unreliable Identification?	No ● Discrepancies in description – height, weight, voice
Quotes from testimony #2	Appellate documents described “disparity in the descriptions originally given by the victims to the police with respect to the height, weight and voice characteristics of their assailant and the actual height, weight and voice characteristics of the Petitioner.”
Highest level reached	Appeal
Claims Raised During All Appeals and Postconviction	Brady Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Jackson Claim Motion for DNA Testing Prosecutorial Misconduct State Law Evidence Claim Suggestive Eyewitness Identification
Harmless Error Rulings	HE NP
Citations to judicial opinions	State v. Smith, 1988 WL 79080 (Ohio App. 1988.) State v. Smith, 1995 WL 771425 (Ohio App.10 Dist. 1995.)