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The Case of Marvin Haynes
📻 Episode #476
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Sep 16, 2024
About This Episode
In 2004, Marvin Haynes was a pretty average 16-year-old — watching Nickelodeon, chasing trends and girls, just having a good time. “I just couldn't wait for the weekends” Marvin says. Until he was picked up by police for a murder at a Minneapolis, MN flower shop. With no physical evidence tying Marvin to the scene,…
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The Case
In 2004, Marvin Haynes was a pretty average 16-year-old — watching Nickelodeon, chasing trends and girls, just having a good time. “I just couldn't wait for the weekends” Marvin says. Until he was picked up by police for a murder at a Minneapolis, MN flower shop. With no physical evidence tying Marvin to the scene, shaky witness IDs, and even a witness recanting at the stand, teenage Marvin was sentenced to life in prison.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.
00:04:47“Speaker 3: woke up at like late in the afternoon. Speaker 1: Marvin says he got up and went to meet up Speaker 1: with friends at some local spots. Speaker 5: Like where I know everybody yet, so just going about Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going by my normal life.”
00:20:06“Speaker 2: that committed this crime. Speaker 7: He gave a story which is the same story he's Speaker 7: been saying for years, which is that he was home Speaker 7: in bed that morning, that he went out with friends Speaker 7: the night before, was I got home kind of late,”
00:34:25“Speaker 7: where he had real doubts about whether that person was guilty, Speaker 7: which was a pretty pretty dramatic moment in the court Speaker 1: Andrew and the Great North Innocence Project filed their case Speaker 1: in late June of twenty twenty three and had a Speaker 1: hearing around Thanksgiving. By this point, the case was huge news.”
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