#260 Maggie Freleng with Mike Politte

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On December 5, 1998, a 14 year old Mike Politte woke up to find his Mineral Point, MO home filled with smoke. When he checked on his mom, he found her on the floor – on fire. After days of interrogations, investigators decided that Mike had been grieving incorrectly and that he must have been the perpetrator. Despite evidence pointing to other relatives and evidence against Mike eventually being disproved, Mike was convicted of second degree murder in the killing of his own mother and condemned to spend the next 2 decades in prison. Maggie speaks to Mike Politte at Jefferson City Correctional Center in MO., Megan Crane J.D., Mike's advocate, and Melonie Politte, Mike's sister. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-michael-politte-after-wrongful-conviction https://twitter.com/michaelpolitte?lang=en https://lavaforgood.com/with-maggie-freleng/ Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	A note for listeners, this episode contains discussion of suicide.
0:05.2	Please listen with caution and care.
0:08.9	So Jason, I've been working on this one episode about a man who went to prison when he was
0:15.4	14 years old and adult prison and just thinking about, you know, what a child's growing
0:20.9	up in that kind of environment, what that does to them.
0:25.6	Yeah, you think about it.
0:27.6	I mean, a 14 year old.
0:29.1	He's a child.
0:30.1	You're an eighth grade, maybe ninth grade.
0:32.4	I mean, it's unimaginable to take a child and put them in a situation that is the most
0:38.7	adult of adult nightmare.
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:41.3	I mean, so just even the concept that we interrogate children, especially, you know, when police
0:46.6	are allowed to lie to them.
0:48.7	That is a Shakespearean type of a scenario, right?
0:52.1	And of course, we know that young people are much more likely to confess to crimes that
0:57.8	they didn't commit because they're so susceptible to the tricks and the lies and even physical
1:03.8	or psychological abuse that they endure, you know.
1:09.9	I was in a panic, but yet I was still aware that I didn't do what they're saying that
1:17.0	I did.
1:18.0	And I stuck to that.
1:19.8	Even though they were threatening me with life in prison, man, you know what happens
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