to make their point, prosecutors cross examine hincapie's witnesses, starting with luis montero. over the years, details in montero's story have changed. >> that's what you swore to here, correct? >> yes, it's right there. >> so your testimony today is inaccurate. >> in all these years, montero never once mentioned seeing hincapie that night. >> your experience in this case dating back 20-plus years, you're angry about it, aren't you? >> i'm not angry about it. >> you're still scared. >> yes, you kept me for 18 months when i was innocent. i'm petrified of you guys. i can't even look at you guys. >> and you're angry? >> no, i'm not angry. i'm scared of you. >> prosecutors had their own witnesses to discredit hincapie's story who did not want us to record their testimony. remember that friend who hincapie said was holding his money that night? >> i gave him my wallet complete with all my money. >> he testified that hincapie never gave him any money to hold. >> it is supposedly the whole predicate for the defendant going back into the subway station or going back down to the platform

the watkins family and then they realized that watkins was not sure. 18 months later they say luis montero, gosh, wrong guy. and they turned him loose. >> but to kuby perhaps the most compelling part of montero's testimony is how he says detectives tried to coerce a false confession from him, the very same thing hincapie says happened to him. >> he hit me around the kidneys and just slapped me every time. he just hit me. then the nightmare started. >> but montero never cracked and maintained his innocence. kuby argued to the judge that what montero and hincapie say happened to them was easy to believe. they were just two of many innocent people swept up by police in a time in new york history when crime was out of control. simply in the wrong place in the wrong era. >> we have done some terrible, terrible things to innocent people in the course of fighting >> case and point, kuby argued, the central park jogger case, that other so-called wolf pack. just like hincapie, those five teens had also confessed on tape, but they were exonerated in 2002 after dna cleared them. now the time had come