Prosecutors drop death sentence of gang leader in bungled case. Pleads to lesser charge

One of Miami’s most notorious gang leaders, who for more than two decades sat on Death Row after four murder convictions, not only had his life spared Wednesday — but learned he may walk out of prison a free man while he’s still in his 70s.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said Wednesday it could no longer move forward with Corey Smith’s re-sentencing trial for reasons ranging from dead and uncooperative witnesses, to a questionable jailhouse phone call between an informant and the state’s lead prosecutor.

It’s a phone call that not only led to the assistant state attorney’s dismissal from the case — but upended at least two other murder convictions by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office…

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