#039 Jason Flom with Kian Khatibi
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In 1998, Kian Khatibi was 22 years old and living in Westchester County, NY when he was wrongfully convicted of stabbing two men during a bar fight and sentenced to 7 to 14 years in prison. After eventually discovering that his brother had committed the crime, Kian successfully fought for his release from prison in 2008 and was finally exonerated in 2012. Kian Khatibi graduated with honors from New York University in 2011 and passed the bar exam in New York after graduating from Cardozo School of Law in 2014. He established a law practice in New York City and is currently working to free other wrongfully convicted individuals.
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| 0:00.0 | I fell into the hands of corrupt detective. |
| 0:07.0 | I was not even enough to believe that I would be able to just present all of my proof of |
| 0:12.1 | actual innocence that they would investigate adequately and so that I wouldn't be going |
| 0:15.8 | to prison because I was a good person, I hadn't anything wrong. |
| 0:19.4 | In the back of my, you say, well, when we go to a hearing, we go to court, the truth |
| 0:24.0 | will come out. |
| 0:25.0 | The prosecution from day one knew I was innocent and let forced testimony go |
| 0:29.6 | uncorrected from the lower courts all we have to United States Supreme Court. |
| 0:36.2 | You have someone with a badge with ultimate and really in that moment unchecked authority. |
| 0:44.7 | Don't presume that people are guilty when you see Montevie because it may just be a dirty |
| 0:50.0 | DA that is trying to rise upward. |
| 0:57.0 | This is wrongful conviction. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome back to wrongful conviction with Jason Flom. |
| 1:19.3 | Today I have a very special guest, Keon Katibi, who is going to tell you a story that will, |
| 1:26.3 | well, it will probably blow your mind because it blows mine. |
| 1:28.9 | Keon, welcome to the show. |
| 1:30.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:31.6 | Good to be here. |
| 1:32.6 | So Keon, ironically, I guess you could say is from Pleasantville, New York. |
| 1:37.2 | And you grew up in sort of a nuclear family, sort of a normal childhood pretty much. |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah, there was five of us all about a year, year and a half apart and I'm the number |
| 1:47.8 | two. |
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