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The Dershow

False Eye-witness IDs Put Innocent People In Prison

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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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