#279 Maggie Freleng with Sylvia Boykin

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In May of 1992, Sylvia Boykin and Bernetta Pope were struggling with substance addiction. Pope owed Boykin money who, in turn, owed money to two younger men. So Boykin and the men went to the house where Pope stayed in Philadelphia, PA to collect the drug debt. Boykin went inside alone but when she returned empty handed, the men went in with guns. An argument ensued, shots were fired, and Pope was killed. Since Boykin was unarmed, she should have been considered a witness. Nevertheless, she was arrested, convicted of first degree murder and sent to prison for life. Maggie speaks to Sylvia Boykin, Jill McCorkel, Boykin's advocate, and Boykin's daughter Pennie Oliver. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://freesylviaboykin.com/Contact.html 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 child sexual abuse and attempted
0:06.4	suicide.
0:07.4	Please listen with caution and care.
0:11.2	Jason, we talk a lot about false confessions and we know how and why they happen.
0:19.0	Is there a scenario which you would willfully confess to a crime like a murder?
0:24.0	Well, I can envision a scenario which I would confess to a murder that I didn't commit.
0:29.7	And that would be if I became so disoriented, scared, confused, lonely and just terrified
0:39.5	of the people who, you know, we all believe are there to protect us and to help us and
0:45.4	to find the truth when they turn on you.
0:49.9	Sometimes people see it as their only way out of that impossible situation and you're
0:55.5	in that room and you're like, I don't want to die.
0:58.4	And maybe this will get sorted out because I know I didn't do it.
1:05.2	And he kept saying, well, if you sign this, I'll let you go home.
1:09.2	And so I was like, but this is not what happened.
1:12.0	So he kept me to the chair and he hit me with a phone book to wake me up.
1:16.4	He's like, sign this and we will let you go.
1:19.8	I signed a paper and I never left prison.
1:27.1	Some lava for good.
1:28.4	This is wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling.
1:30.9	Today, Sylvia Boykin.
1:43.0	On May 15, 1992, Sylvia Boykin went to collect a drug debt from a woman named Bernetta Pope.
1:50.8	Sylvia showed up at the house in North Philadelphia with two men, Lamont Antoine Blackman and Aaron
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