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Michael Politte has served 22 years for murdering his mother. Experts say he’s innocent

St. Louis on the Air

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I'm Sorry That He Lost His Mam

I did it because you said somebody was trying to frame you for something you didn't do. You felt like if they could just look at your finger prints and compare that to what was there, that you'd be exonerated. I offered everything. As a matter of fact, when they wanted to reexhume my mother because they had failed or forgot to take her finger nails, my attorney at the time, wane williams, looked at me at this court proceeding and said, barney, we can object to this. I said, don't, because i'm trying to give them evidence to exonerate me. And so what would be under her finger nails might be

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