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Amanpour: Keith Bush, Nina Morrison, Sergio Jaramillo, Yousef Bashir

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Keith Bush, who was jailed for 33 years for a crime he didn't commit, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss his exoneration. Nina Morrison, senior litigation counsel at the Innocence Project, weighs in on Bush's case and the problems with the American judicial system. Sergio Jaramillo, a former lead peace negotiator, talks about the fragility of Colombia's peace deal with FARC rebels. Our Alicia Menendez Sits down with Yousef Bashir, Palestinian-American author, to reflect on Bashir's life growing up in war torn Gaza and his new book "The Words of My Father".To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

That's how I got into the prison system and I never got out until I was 49 years old.

0:17.0

33 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

0:21.0

What the case of Keith Bush says about the miscarriage of justice for American minorities.

0:27.0

The stability in Colombia should be a number one priority of the US.

0:32.0

It was the longest war in the Western Hemisphere

0:35.3

and now a fragile peace between the state of Colombia and its FARC rebels is under

0:40.5

threat. What this means for the region and for the United States.

0:44.6

Then today I'm glad to tell you that he was the best human being I have ever known.

0:50.3

The words of my father, Palestinian-American Youssef Bashir looks back at growing up in

0:56.1

Gaza and at his own father's struggle for peace. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. It's a

1:17.4

miscarriage of justice so heinous that it's hard to believe. Imagine spending

1:22.2

not one, not two, but three decades locked up for a

1:26.4

murder that you did not commit. That is the unfortunate real life story of

1:30.8

Keith Bush. At 17 years old Bush was arrested for the murder of a teenage

1:35.9

girl on Long Island in New York. Bush says police beat him and coerced a sign

1:41.3

confession but the jury found him guilty anyway.

1:45.0

33 years later in 2007, Keith Bush walked out of prison,

1:50.0

but it was only last month that he was fully exonerated.

1:54.0

After it came to light that prosecutors actually had another suspect and never told the defense.

2:00.0

That witness testimony was recanted and that DNA evidence under the victim's

2:05.4

fingernails showed no link to Bush. There's a huge focus right now on

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