#285 Maggie Freleng with Tammy Poole

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When Tammy Poole and her husband Michael Poole argued, Tammy says that Michael would threaten to commit suicide. Then on April 22, 2007, in their hometown of Chatsworth, GA, a rifle took Michael’s life. While Tammy adamantly claims that her husband tragically shot himself in front of her, a single declaration from a pathologist led investigators to theorize that Tammy actually pulled the trigger. Despite numerous experts proving this pathologist wrong, and countless examples of an unfair trial with ineffective assistance, Tammy has been serving a life sentence in prison since 2008. Maggie speaks with Tammy Poole, Shanacy Densmore, Tammy’s daughter and Brandon Bullard, Tammy’s attorney. Author, podcaster and exoneree Amanda Knox joins Maggie at the top of the show to set the stage for this tragic story. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.change.org/p/the-state-of-georgia-release-tammy-from-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment 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.
0:08.6	Amanda, thank you for joining me.
0:12.1	I want to introduce you to listeners who might not know who you are.
0:15.2	You are a podcaster.
0:16.5	You have a podcast with your husband called Labyrinth.
0:18.8	You are an ethical storyteller, is how you like to refer to yourself.
0:22.7	Yes.
0:23.7	For those who don't know, I also was wrongly convicted, which is how we know each other
0:27.9	through the Innocence Network.
0:28.9	So it's great to see you again, Maggie.
0:30.9	Amanda, when you look at wrongful convictions with women, what are maybe the three most
0:37.0	common factors you see?
0:38.8	So the vast majority of cases where women are wrongly convicted actually involve them
0:43.7	be accused of a crime that never happened in the first place.
0:47.0	What ultimately happens in a lot of these cases is women who are suddenly shocked by a tragic
0:52.8	thing that happens to them feel a sense of guilt that is then utilized by the police
0:58.7	to either coerce them into falsely confessing or is used as a way to suggest that they are
1:05.5	behaving like a guilty person.
1:08.0	So someone who is experiencing grief or shock is told that they're not acting the way that
1:13.8	a person is supposed to act in their situation.
1:17.6	And there's also this assumption that we have that women, especially in the caretaking
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