Kevin just happens to be the brother behind bars.During the trial, though, none of that BCI forensic material was challenged. Kevin went inside to talk to his uncle, Roy Price, and to borrow a quick five dollars. No one could say for sure who that large black man could have been, though. By then, of course, people already knew the name Kevin Keith. Because the investigation of the Melton brothers had begun before the murders that Kevin got convicted of — and it ended afterward — we were hoping that he would have some sort of timeline." We're both going nuts. The more we investigated, the more we realized that what he was saying was true. It took some hard reading to bring the attorneys around to the depth of this case.If the Ohio Supreme Court denies jurisdiction on this one, then Troutman says that the next step would be an attempt to get into the federal court system.Nonetheless, the 5 a.m. phone call was canon for years.For more than a decade, Kevin sweated out the wait on Death Row while his appellate counsel exhausted every avenue back into the courts. His team won a state title in 1981. Calls placed the night before, at 9:09 p.m. and 9:14 p.m., include "BUCYRUS ESTATES-GUNSHOTS" and "5 PEOPLE DOWN WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS AT 1712 A BUCYRUS ESTATES," respectively.
)Kevin did not enter a plea at his arraignment. Smathers said she watched the driver rock the vehicle back and forth — "cussing from inside" the car — and then speed out of the icy neighborhood. "He is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 15, 2010, for a crime he did not commit. Kevin Keith was stuck.In police reports, the name "Kevin Keith" first comes up at the crime scene, where multiple police officers say the name, according to reports. Rudel and Rodney, like Rudel and Kevin, were linked.The night of Feb. 13, 1994, holds many mysteries, but there's one point upon which the state and the defense agree: A man named Rudel Chatman was the intended target, and he wasn't at home that night.But despite the name Kevin Keith making the rounds among police officers, it wasn't sticking when it came time to connect with witnesses. "From that point on, identification was made in other ways. Again, due to our limited cognitive capacity, attention directed at the gun is attention NOT directed at encoding the culprit. They left Gracie's place after 10 minutes, arriving back at Melanie's at 9:25 p.m. "The sheer distance involved makes it impossible for Keith to have been the shooter," Kevin's appellate attorneys wrote. People are going to be looking at us, and you gotta know what you're talking about. "There is no conflict to resolve. That's where my faith really comes into play at, right there. In a word, he's actively involved in his community.In a motion arguing in favor of Ohio Supreme Court jurisdiction, Keith's team writes: "The employment-personnel file of G. Michele Yezzo ... demonstrates that her superiors and colleagues knew that she had a 'reputation of giving' answers the State wanted, and that she would 'stretch the truth' when her answers did not satisfy the State.