name. watch an unreal dream right here on cnn. the sign language interpreter at nelson mandela s memorial who has been called a fraud around the world for making up jibberish signs is blaming on it a skits friendic hallucination. he said he saw visions of angels flying into the event and that he s had a history of violent incidents in the past. in a separate interview with david mckenzie he defended his performance and said his schizophrenia was the inspiration for wanting to become an interpreter. what sort of disability do you have? me, i m suffering from schizophrenic which is controllable and under i m under treatment. can you show me some of the signs? what are you
represent us. it s a real no-win situation at the moment. yeah. just a remind, 9:00 eerng cnn reairing the film an unreal dream, the michael morton story about an innocent man s fight for freedom after being convicted of a murder he didn t commit. unreal dream airs tonight on cnn. and ahead on around the world, you have seen the pictures, people wearing face masks to protect themselves from the smog in china. now it s so bad the government s ordering a change in the way pilots land their planes because they can t see the runway sometimes. (horn, ding, ding) how long have i had my car insurance? i don t know, eight, ten years. i couldn t tell you but things were a lot less expensive back then. if you re 50 or over you should take a new look at your auto insurance. you may be overpaying. actually that makes a lot of sense.
i guess i kept looking at michael and just noticing that he just didn t seem to have a lot of feeling about him. i guess i kept looking for some emotion that would let me know something about what was going on. michael had an amazing capacity to compartmentalize things so that he didn t bring his grief into the office. i don t know what he did with it. i didn t think i was going to get convicted. it was going to be a longish trial but then it would be revealed that there can be no there there. there s nothing to convict. there s nothing hard. there s nothing that says look, this guy did it. there s nothing beyond a reasonable doubt. and i couldn t imagine what could possibly be manufactured to make 12 people think that i killed my wife. watch cnn films an unreal dream at 9:00 p.m. eastern on
convicted of the brutal killing of his man. he spent 25 years behind bars. cut off from the world, losing contact with his only son. and then finally, dna evidence proved that morton was innocent. this is what he claimed all along. new day s quchris cuomo sat dow with him before the airing of our film titled an unreal dream. i m probably the personification of that old axiom from school, you can t prove a negative. how do you prove you didn t do something? how rough was it inside? i never liked it. but i got used to it. how long did it take you? probably 14 or 15 years. 14 or 15 years. to get where i was used to it. are the first years the hardest? the first years are hard just because it s a shock and it s
been adopted, few things are as powerful to a parent as the abject rejection of their child. you say, i always thought that i would get out. what fueled the hope? it s difficult for me to say whether it was just faith that i knew i was right and i wasn t guilty, that this would work out. or just that i didn t know how deep i was in. cnn film is called an unreal dream. airs tonight, 9:00 eastern, right here on cnn. coming up, here s a scenario for you. you re flying, sitting back, relaxing on the plane. suddenly people to the right of you, to the left, to the front, to the back, start yapping on their cell phones. annoying, right? any moment now, a vote on whether that could soon become a reality. plus this. a fraternity pledge dies during