on2016, yusef salaam join us democracy now! ked him about how them presidential candidate donald trump was continuing to say that yusef and the other young men were guilty. >> first, thank you for having me on your show. donald trump has the absolute ultimate ability to fact check everything about this case. one of the things that is really surprising is you have one of the jurors saying, he was going crazy, there was no evidence, no blood on the guys, but they can fast so that was that. but when you look at the nature of the confessions, when you look at the nature of what happened to get the confessions, how these confessions did not match anything the other guys were saying, you know, and then all of a sudden, 13 years later the truth comes out and here you have a guy who talks about what happened at the crime scene, talks about when he struck the woman over the head with a tree branch, talks about dragging her into the woods, and key evidence that no one else had mentioned is that she was tied up with her own jogging outfit.

yusef salaam, antron mccay, kevin richardson, korey wise, and raymond santana recounted their experiencemaurice dubois on "cbs sunday morning." >> i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. and i'm immediately beyond afraid. >> reporter: a judge threw out the convictions in 2002, relying on d.n.a. evidence and a new confession from another man, but not until after the so-called central park five spent six to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced, and said there was "certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions" for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> miss fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry scheck helped start the innocence project, which represents defendants wrongfully convicted. >> if that videotaping had happened, from the time these young men got miranda warnings until the end of the interrogation, none of this would have happened. all of those coercive techniques would have been exposed. >> reporter: what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to check these

raymond santana, kevin richardson, korey wise, antron mccray, and yusef salaam recently recounted theire with police to maurice dubois on "cbs sunday morning." >> i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. >> reporter: a judge threw out the convictions in 2002, relying on d.n.a. evidence and a new confession from another man, but not until after the so-called central park five spent six to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced and said there was certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> ms. fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry scheck helped start "the innocence project," which represents defendants wrongfully convicted. what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to change these interrogation techniques, because there is too much coercive interrogation going on till this day. >> reporter: fairstein, now a best-selling author has been dropped by her publisher and is no longer serving on several boards, all since the premier

yusef salaam, antron mccray, kevin richardson, korey wise, and raymond santana recently recounted their experience with police to maurice dubois on cbs sunday morning. >> and i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. >> reporter: a judge threw out the convictions in 2002, relying on dna evidence and a new confession from another man. but not until after the so-called central park five spent 6 to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced and said there was certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> ms. fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry pr wchesen defendantthe nvted. >> what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to change these interrogation techniques because there's too much coercive interrogation going on till this day. >> reporter: fairstein now a best-selling author has been dropped by her publisher and is no longer serving on several boards, all since the premiere of that netflix miniseries. >> painful story. thank you