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Sunday, March 24, 2013

13-Year-Old Witness Told to "Pick the Guy With the Biggest Nose,” By Police, Sending Innocent Man to Prison for 2 Decades

“I was too young back then to realize that this was a setup," the now-grown witness said.

After 23 years behind bars, a Brooklyn man was set free due to mounting evidence that he did not kill prominent Rabbi, Chaskel Werzberger, in 1991. “"Right now, I feel like I'm under water swimming," David Ranta, 53, told reporters just moments after becoming a free man, "This is overwhelming."

Ranta’s overturned conviction rests partly on the claims of a witness who says New York police instructed him to identify the wrong suspect when he was 13. Menachem Lieberman says he suffered too long with the guilt of sending an innocent man to jail for decades, causing him to approach investigators with a reversed statement in 2011. He recounted the moment in question to CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just saw on the news that he was admitted to the hospital friday night after having a heart attack only having been free for less than 48 hours. :(

Anonymous said...

The world has changed in the last 20+ years, its enough to give anyone a heart attack, stepping foot outside, when you never thought you would again, not having anything, and proble not having anyone

Anonymous said...

All cops and prosecutors are evil corrupt thugs.

ginn said...

12:26 Your message is getting around. There are far more people today that have your views. More and more evidence is being exposed and it all points to exactly what you've said. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Anonymous said...

Those cops and proscetooters should be on trial for fixing the outcome of his trial.

Give them the 23 years this guy had to endure.