#564 Maggie Freleng with Dr. Marvin Cotton Jr.
Wrongful Conviction
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On January 24, 2001, 25-year-old Jamond McIntre was shot seven times and killed in Detroit, MI. Though there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, three individuals, including 21-year-old Marvin Cotton, were ultimately identified. After a trial that hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse snitch, Cotton was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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| 0:00.0 | On the west side of Detroit in the summer of 2000, 20-year-old Marvin Cotton Jr. sold a gun. |
| 0:12.5 | He thought it belonged to his distant cousin, but that wasn't the case. |
| 0:18.0 | I get a knock at the door, and it's him and an older guy. And I knew immediately that it |
| 0:25.0 | had something to do with this gun. So I opened the door and said, man, get away from my house. |
| 0:30.4 | So as I closed the door, I heard the older guy say, he don't know who he's effing with. |
| 0:37.4 | Next thing I know, he's effing with. |
| 0:39.7 | Next thing I know, two police cars pull up. |
| 0:43.0 | They gear up and break in my house without a warrant. |
| 0:47.3 | He kept saying that it was a department issue gun. |
| 0:52.6 | But there wasn't a gun that a police officer would carry was like a huge chrome automatic weapon. |
| 0:53.3 | They really wanted it back. |
| 0:54.8 | They ransacked my house. |
| 0:56.0 | They took money. |
| 0:57.1 | Other guns that I had, but the gun that they were looking for wasn't there. |
| 1:02.1 | He said, I got $1,000 for this gun. |
| 1:04.6 | We're going to leave. |
| 1:06.0 | Just go hide it somewhere. |
| 1:08.1 | Call me and tell me where you hid the gun at. |
| 1:11.7 | But instead of playing along, Marvin filed a complaint, which led to an investigation |
| 1:17.1 | and eventually consequences for these officers, as well as Marvin being routinely harassed |
| 1:24.4 | by the police. Fast forward to January 24, 2001, gunfire erupted on Marvin's friend, Jamon McIntyre's porch. |
| 1:33.5 | Jemann ran into the alley across the street where he was fatally shot. |
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