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>> he was saying, just hang in there. keep your eyes open. you know, and he was holding my hand. and i remember him squeezing, hold on, hold on, hang in there. . >> losing his brother to prison, then seeing his friend almost die, hardened malcolm. he inched a bit closer to the streets. in fact, police caught him with a handgun. something he says probably would not have happened if corey had been around. >> he's always been the one that said, man, no, you don't need to be involved with none of that. you need to be in school. get that football. >> malcolm had always wanted to follow in his broth...

>> i was seeing a lot of cases where there were no facts that supported what i was seeing on these convictions. when you're seeing that lack over time involving the same departments, sheriff's office, police department, prosecutor's office, that's what really bothered me. >> cullen and the innocence team tracked down the second eyewitness who testified he had seen malcolm and de'marchoe. but police records showed he had been shot in the buttocks and his back was turned. >> common sense tells you if you got shot in the butt and you're running away, you're not able to see anything. >> the eyewit...

Risk. >> while malcolm and de'marchoe waited, wilson lost his final appeal on january 2nd, 2014. he was set to die by lethal injection a week later. and then the phone rang. it was wilson's lawyer. >> and she said to us, if you want to talk to him, this is the window you've got. and it was, literally, i think 48 hours before his execution. >> my name is michael wilson. >> when murphy met with wilson in a death row visiting room, a video camera was rolling. >> i was incredibly nervous, because i knew what was on the line for malcolm and de'marchoe. >> now, what might be their last chance at fre...

Of how to gain a conviction. >> but in corey's case it wasn't just allegations of coercion. norwood found three different eyewitnesses who told police someone else was the shooter. none of them testified at corey's trial. >> they all described the exact same physical appearance of someone, 5'7"-ish, 150-ish, that was an aha moment. 'cause corey atchison's 6'2", he's a big dude. no one is going to misinterpret corey atchison for being 5'7," 150, okay? >> given all this new evidence, malcolm thought his brother finally had a chance to get out of prison. >> hey, bro. >> what's up, bro? >> what's ...

Huff noticed a maroon sedan parked in wilson's driveway. it matched the description of the drive-by car. >> mike huff says, hey, i want to talk to you about this shooting. what do you know? and michael is trying to hide a gun. huff sees the gun and takes the gun. ballistic tests showed that that was the gun that, you know, was used to kill karen summers. >> it seemed damning, but wilson told detectives he was hiding the gun for malcolm's friend, de'marchoe, and had given de'marchoe the bullets. wilson was arrested for holding the gun, but his story lined up with what police were hearing from t...