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May 14, 2019 · Learn about the 1989 case of the Central Park Five, five black and Latino teens wrongly convicted of raping a white jogger in New York City. Find out how DNA evidence, a confession and a $41 million settlement exonerated them after years in prison.
The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman in Central Park in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 1989. [1] [2] On the night of the attack, dozens of teenagers had entered the park, and there were reports of muggings and physical assaults.
Jun 12, 2019 · Central Park Five: The true story behind When They See Us. 12 June 2019. Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix/Getty. Ethan Herisse as Yusef Salaam in When They See Us (left) and the real Yusef Salaam...
Jun 19, 2019 · The Central Park Five — Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana Jr., Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam — were the five black and Latino men who were convicted and later exonerated of...
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May 26, 2021 · Each of the boys, then known as the "Central Park Five," was convicted. It wasn't until 2002 — well after Salaam had completed his nearly seven-year prison sentence — that DNA evidence...
The film tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of a 1989 rape in Central Park. Learn more about the conviction, exoneration and aftermath of the case, and watch a special video feature.
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May 30, 2019 · The True Story of How a City in Fear Brutalized the Central Park Five - The New York Times. “When They See Us” revisits the case of the wrongfully convicted teenage boys. A writer who covered...
