False Eye-witness IDs Put Innocent People In Prison
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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False eye-witness testimony and accusations destroy innocent lives.
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| 0:00.0 | You thought you knew who blew up the plane in Locker Bee 30 some odd years ago that |
| 0:06.4 | killed so many Americans? Well, there's new information that suggests somebody else may have been involved and what about a guy who just got freed from prison |
| 0:17.2 | after 38 years when it turned out the woman who identified him made up the story and was lying. You'll hear about |
| 0:26.5 | this in other cases of miscarriages of justice on the Dershore. This morning's news brings two stories that should shake your |
| 0:38.8 | faith in our criminal justice system and also shake your faith in media reports about crimes. |
| 0:48.6 | You all remember, certainly those of you who are old enough, the horrible tragedy that occurred just 32 years ago this |
| 0:55.4 | week in Lockerbie when an airplane carrying 270 or so people, the vast majority of them Americans, many of them Americans |
| 1:06.7 | returning from vacation and 25 or so of them students from Syracuse University who were returning from study abroad. |
| 1:15.8 | It was blown up out of the air over Lachaby, Scotland. |
| 1:20.3 | Everybody was killed. |
| 1:21.5 | 11 or so people were killed on the ground. |
| 1:24.2 | It was the worst case of terrorism in British history and |
| 1:27.1 | one of the worst cases of terrorism ever. |
| 1:31.4 | And a man, of was eventually arrested after an extensive investigation. |
| 1:38.0 | His name was the Al-Magraki. |
| 1:42.0 | And I, ironically, was retained by a British law firm to be an expert analyst of the |
| 1:50.8 | evidence against al-Mizrari. The case was very very very speculative. |
| 1:58.0 | The only real evidence pointing to this guy, we all knew that Libya was involved and this guy worked with |
| 2:06.6 | Libyan intelligence but the only evidence pointing to this guy was the fact that |
| 2:12.2 | they recovered the suitcase in which the bomb had been planted |
| 2:17.2 | and remnants of the clothing and the suitcase was traced to a shop in Cyprus, where it was bought. And the owner of the |
| 2:29.2 | shop identified Amagrabi as the guy who bought the suitcase. |
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