and i pray to god. i say, you know, i don t wan to live. it was a crime that engulfe the city, a young touris murdered he was stabbed trying to protect his mother we had to get everyone. seven teams convicted one says he s innocent you don t have to believe me look at the facts in this case now we are doing just tha tracking down witnesses. he was shaking. he started crying revisiting evidence - the most emotional thing wa reading the letter is he telling the truth or lying to win his freedom? we are about to find out this is a perry mason moment right, she s a surprise t everyone hello, and welcome to dateline in the late 19 80s, robberies, muggings, and even murders wer a sad reality of life in new york city. then, in 1990, a tourist was stabbed while trying to protec his family the public demanded action and then got it. police made arrests and pu suspects behind bars but one of the man convicted said he wasn t there was an innocent man in jail
montero s testimony is how h says detectives tried to cover a false commission from the very same thing tha says happened to him and they slapped me every time i tell them something tha they didn t want to hear they hit me. so that s when the nightmare started, you know? but montero never correct and maintained his innocence law kuby argued to the judge that what montero and hincapie say happened to them was eas to believe they were just two of many innocent people swept up b police at a time in new york history when crime was out o control. simply, the wrong place as and the wrong era. we have done some terrible, terrible things to innocen people in the course o fighting crime case in point, kuby argued, the central park case