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…