� August 7, 1991 a woman, Marsha blakely and her live in boyfriend were found murdered, in Lorain Ohio.� Marsha's body was found behind Westgate Shopping Mall, ran over several times and she was stabbed repeatedly, and her boyfriend, Floyd epps was found 1/2 mile away in the same condition. The police had no leads and offered a reward. Sometime in the middle of August Lenworth and his friends were stopped on a routine traffic, for speeding.� Lenworth had no identification on him and gave a false name.� Lenworth and his codefendants were all from New York, and in Ohio selling drugs at the time(was never charged or convicted with selling drugs in Ohio).� Lenworth at the time of his arrest was 18 and had only been in Ohio for three weeks.� So Lorain police arrested him on obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.� Mid sentence, Lorain detectives and police collaborated a story so fixed with false testimony, and fabricated events, that a child would not believe the story they came up with, but a jury did, and convicted Lenworth and three other men to life sentences.�
The detectives could not come up with any physical evidence, linking Lenworth or his codefendants to the crime only the testimony of an admitted liar William Avery Jr.�Along with detectives and the promise of reward money, Avery managed to come up with two different stories of what happend the night in question.� His first story was that he owed Alfred Cleveland (codefendant) some drug money and to pay off his debt he agreed to beat people up for them.� He arrived at Marsha Blakely's house, some 3pm in the afternoon, and when he got there he realized that he knew Ms. Blakely and could not beat her up.� Next he claims that Lenworth (Lenny) struck Ms. Blakely in the face and she started to bleed.� The police discovered a jacket of Lenny's at a friend's house and later on forensic experts discoved that the blood belonged to Lenny, who maintained all along that it was from periodic nose bleeds that he has had every since he was a child.� Avery went on to claim that the victim Marsha Blakely was beaten unconscious by the New York men and that she was dragged in broad daylight to a car and driven away,while he got into another car and went home. That was his first story.
Then Avery changed his testimony to the police, he now said that Alfred drove them to the Westgate Shopping Mall where Ms. Blakely's body was found and when they got there Lenny, John� Edwards, and Justice (who was never brought to trial) were waiting on them.� He further claims that all of them started beating Ms. Blakely, while he looked on, and then Justice started jabbing at her with a sharp shinny object and then afterwards ran her over several times with the car.� Avery then states that although he did not perform the job he was there to do, and despite the fact that he owed them money and just witnessed a murder, he was allowed to go home, with more loaned money from Alfred Cleveland.� Now as ridiculous as this story is already, it gets even worse.� Lenworth had two trials one of which ended in a mistrial when Avery confessed on the witness stand about lying about the whole story.� He admitted he needed the reward money, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail for perjury.� At this time we believe the prosecutor threatened Avery into changing his story or getting charged with the murder himself.� So Avery, goes back on the witness stand after again, changing his story, and stating that Lenworth sent a correctional officer to threaten him (this was never investigated or proved).� So now they get to use their ONLY witness again for a FALSE CONVICTION!� Despite the fact that Al Cleveland has maintained that he was in New York that day visiting his parole officer, magically that evidence could not be found until recently, more than five years after his incarceration.� Also we have obtained Secret Service documents from the prosecution's office, stating that in 1997, just five years after Lenworth's conviction, they fired Avery because he botched a food stamp investigation by again, offering to give the their target information about the sting, in exchange for MONEY!� The same prosecutions office called Avery "Deceptive."
��� It is also amazing that the guy Avery claimed did the stabbing (Justice) was never brought to trial or even arrested, why?� Also they failed to ever convict anyone of the Epps murder, even though they were friends and were killed the same day in the same manor.� Why did the prosecutor (Rosenbaum) fail to mention that Epps's wounds were similar to that of Ms. Blakely's? How is it that the coroner pronounced the time of death to be about 2:30am, but Avery's original testimony is that the New York Boys started beating her at 3pm.� I am begging you or anyone you think can help to help these needles in this very large haystack of wrongful convictions.� I am a firm believer that one day the right person will come along and read this story and be able to bring these men home!�
To Correspond with Lenworth Directly Write him at:
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����� Please put inmate ID# after his name:(255- 415)
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