binomial identity seemingly illogical and impossible. Is there any way it could be true?

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There is binomial expression(s) written as $$\sum_{n\geqslant0}\frac{(-3n+2k-3)n!^2}{2(2n+1)(k-1)!^2(n-k+1)!^2 \binom{2n}{n}}=\begin{cases} 0 & \text{if $k=0$,} \\ -1 & \text{if $k\geqslant1$,} \end{cases}$$

which simplifies to $$\sum_{n\geqslant0}\frac{(3n-2k+1)\binom{n}{k}^2}{(2n+1) \binom{2n}{n}}=2\quad\text{for all $k\geqslant0$.}$$ Logically this looks like a physical impossibility. Would anyone believe that there is any way this could be true and if so how would one go about proving this paradox or seemingly impossibility.

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it seems that he just let say k=k'+1 in the first eq multiplied by -2 and then dropped the primes on k to get the 2nd expression(7.3.2). Also the first case "if k=0" must also be mult by -2 just as for the 2nd case. If k goes from 0 then since k=k'+1 then k' starts from -1 There is also one more issue is that if we were to say k' goes from one less then the 2nd should read after replacing k' by k then it should read k=-1,0,1,2... but then could argue that because then $\binom{n}{-1}$ is equal to 0 then we could change it to k=0,1,2...but equivalently we also already knew that for the original k first case that it was 0 anyway so just and (in fact must leave that out since the expression in not equal 2) which corresponds to k'=-1 which we leave off which after dropping primes the range is just as written in (7.3.2).