THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories, and an outraged public. [101] Armstrong said the panel believed "the word of a serial rapist killer is not something to be heavily relied upon. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. A further followup of the case of the West Memphis Three and the decades long fight to exonerate them that finally gained traction with new DNA evidence. The other two defendants later joined the lawsuit. The city did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement. He has also appeared with other involved men in presentations at local schools and colleges. In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. He had denied any knowledge of the rape in his videotaped confession, but was implicated by other defendants' statements. It's touched on in a couple of the interviews, but not by a recognized expert on the issue and not in any depth.Still, it's a powerful piece and has far fewer Ken Burns-style gimmicks than we see in his other films. [62], Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Lederer had a lengthy opening statement, and Wise broke down at the defense table after it, weeping and shouting that she had lied. [147] Decoteau had made a plea deal in February in which he agreed to testify against the other two. Gerald Malone and Patricia Dean, riding on a tandem bike, were attacked on East Drive south of 102nd Street about 9:15 p.m. by boys who tried to stop them and grab Dean; the couple called police after reaching a call box. He said the settlement was "a disgrace", and that the men were likely guilty: "Settling doesn't mean innocence. [8] Korey Wise said he had not been involved, and accompanied Salaam because they were friends. But we rectified it. The Central Park Five is a two-act American opera composed by Anthony Davis with libretto by Richard Wesley. [144], The Central Park events, which were attributed at the time to members of the large group of youths who attacked numerous persons in the park, including whites, blacks and Hispanics, were covered as an extreme example of the violence that was occurring in the city, including assaults and robberies, rapes and homicides. [8] According to The New York Times, their accounts of these other attacks were accurate, unlike their confessions to the assault on the jogger. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. [89][90] In announcing these facts, Morgenthau also said that the perpetrator had tied up Meili with her T-shirt in a distinctive fashion that Reyes used again on later victims in crimes for which he was convicted. With Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise, Raymond Santana. And some of what they said was simply contrary to established fact. [5] The Open Line hosts on WRKS were credited with helping continue to cover the case until the convicted youths were cleared in 2002 of the crime. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Santana, McCray, and Richardson made video statements in the presence of parents. [66], According to an FBI expert who gave evidence at the trial, all five defendants could be excluded as being the man who had left the semen samples inside Meili and on a sock. On April 21, senior police investigators held a press conference to announce having apprehended about 20 suspects in the attacks of a total of nine people in Central Park two nights before and began to offer their theory of the attack and rape of the female jogger. "[45] In 2019 Time magazine also assessed Trump's ads in 1989 as having adversely affected the case for the defendants. Check out our editors' picks for the movies and shows we're excited about this month, like Mortal Kombat, "Them," and Stowaway. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Reporters had found that some came from stable, financially secure families; police had ruled out drugs or major robbery, and most had no criminal records. 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[16][17][18][19] Her skull had been fractured so badly that her left eye was dislodged from its socket, which in turn was fractured in 21 places, and she suffered as well from facial fractures. Use the HTML below. False confessions and the jogger case. He confessed to being present at the rape only after the detective falsely told him that fingerprints had been found on the victim's clothing and if his matched, he would be charged with rape. New York City senior detectives said the term was used by the suspects when describing their actions to police. As to the five defendants, the report said: We believe the inconsistencies contained in the various statements were not such as to destroy their reliability. [52] Years later, more advanced DNA testing also revealed that the hairs in Richardson's clothes did not match the victim.[67]. [34] He was also interrogated.[35]. Also retired New York City detective Edward Conlon, who had been involved with the case, in an article published in October 2014 in The Daily Beast, quoted incriminatory statements allegedly made by some of the youths after they had been taken into custody by police in April 1989. Their confessions varied as to who they identified as having participated in the rape, including naming several youths who were never charged. She had resumed jogging in 1989 three or four months after the attack, and over the years added a variety of other exercise and yoga practice. A documentary about the 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the great depression. [7], In addition to the confessions, the filing noted that a "reconstruction of the events in the park has bared a significant conflict, one that was hinted at but not explored in depth at the trials: at the time the jogger was believed to have been attacked, the teenagers were said to be involved—either as spectators or participants—in muggings elsewhere in the park. [citation needed] Since 1989, New York and some 24 other states have passed laws requiring "electronic records of full interrogations". These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels. [62] They contended that the confessions had been coerced from youths vulnerable to pressure because of their age and their intellectual capacity. None of the three defense attorneys cross-examined her. But the case, and the themes that it highlighted, are a reminder of the kind of city New York was and, in some ways, still is. You made this up. [27][28][29] She attended Upper St. Clair High School, graduating in 1978. According to the Innocence Project, he has acted as an advocate with Santana and Salaam to reform New York State's criminal justice practices, advocating methods to prevent false confessions and eyewitness misidentifications. [19], By that time, more information had been published about the primary suspects in the rape, who did not seem to satisfy typical profiles of perpetrators. Antron McCray, 15; Yusef Salaam, 15; and Korey Wise (then known as Kharey Wise), 16, were brought in for questioning later that day (April 20), after having been identified by other youths in the large group as participants in or present at some of the attacks on other victims. When Salaam informed police of his true age, they allowed his mother entry to the interrogation room. All I can think is that these boys were handy scapegoats for a decade of out-of-control crime and violence in New York and they became sacrificial lambs. The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. These five young men… This FAQ is empty. He was sentenced on October 10, 1990 to four to twelve years in prison. Tyrone Prescott, 17, Kelvin Furman, 22, and another young man, Darren Decotea (name corrected a few days later as Darron Decoteau),[148] 17, were apprehended within two weeks and prosecuted for the crimes. Maybe that's a result of having directorial collaborators. Five black and Latino youths were falsely convicted of assaulting the woman, and served sentences ranging from six to twelve years. They took into custody 14 or more other suspects over the next few days and arrested a total of ten suspects who were ultimately tried for the attacks. [7][65] Wise was convicted of lesser charges of sexual abuse, assault, and riot in the attack on the female jogger and on Loughlin. [147], 1989 crime involving the beating and rape of a jogger in New York City, "Central Park Five" redirects here. Kevin Richardson served 7 years in juvenile detention from 1990 to 1997 and was released on parole. Her name was withheld as a victim of a sex crime. [6] She was raped and beaten almost to death. [52] In total, 14 men were tested, including the defendants and Meili's former boyfriend, and all were excluded. The Central Park Five, a 2019 TV series about the case, retitled When They See Us Disambiguation page providing links to topics that could be referred to by the same search term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Central Park Five . [56], Analysis indicated that none of the suspects' DNA matched either of the two DNA samples collected from the crime scene (from the jogger's cervix and running sock), but results were reported as "inconclusive" by the police. Kassin, Saul (November 1, 2002). The five men sued the city for discrimination and emotional distress; the city settled in 2014 for $41 million. If they actually did participate in the mob violence that night, some attention might have been usefully paid to the whole issue of how seemingly otherwise good kids from poor but stable homes with fathers present in their lives can get caught up in that kind of lawlessness.Also, more importantly, they should have had some expert on hand to address the whole phenomenon of false or coerced confessions and give their objective assessment of this particular case and perhaps give other known examples of established false confessions, just to provide some context and answer those critics who stand by the notion of absolute guilt based on confession. The four juvenile defendants served 6–7 years each; the 16-year-old was tried and sentenced as an adult and served 13 years in an adult prison. [6] He was hit in the head with a pipe and stick, knocking him briefly unconscious. [52] The fourth one, on April 17, took place during the day in the park and is now tied to Reyes. [8] In his untaped confession, Salaam claimed to have struck the jogger with a pipe at the beginning of the incident. ‘Time’ Film Review: Elegant Doc Focuses on Families Affected by Incarceration, Director Ava DuVernay And A Late Show Host Stephen Colbert Discuss Law Enforcement Accountability Project, Fight the Power: 18 Docs to Help Explain Today’s Unrest, Amazon’s Black Employee Network Recommended Watching, Critics' Choice 2013: Nominated Movies & TV. Five male youths were tried in two trials for the rape and violent assault of Trisha Meili whilst she was on a evening jog (the 6th made a plea deal in 1991 for a lesser charge and had a lesser sentence). [24] For example, the name of Kharey Wise (he later adopted the use of Korey as his first name) was published in an April 25, 1989 article in the Philadelphia Daily News about the attack on the female jogger. ... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? [16], Meili was a Phi Beta Kappa economics major at Wellesley College, where she received a B.A. "[45] Salaam said his family received death threats after papers ran Trump's full-page ad urging the death penalty. A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. [84][85] Reyes was then working at an East Harlem convenience store on Third Avenue and 102nd Street, and living in a van on the street. In a plea deal, he pleaded guilty on October 5, 1989, to the robbery of Loughlin and was sentenced to a year in a juvenile facility. Each of the three youths was acquitted of attempted murder, but convicted of assault and rape of the female jogger, and convicted of assault and robbery of John Loughlin, a male jogger who was badly beaten that night in Central Park. 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[7], DNA analysis of the strands of hair found on the clothing of two of the defendants, conducted with advanced technology not available at the time of their trial, established that the hair did not belong to the victim, despite what the prosecution had testified to at trial. [71], Raymond Santana had been out of prison for six months before he was found guilty of possessing of crack cocaine in 1998 and reincarcerated for a term of 3.5 to 7 years. [101][75], In its January 2003 Armstrong Report, the panel "did not dispute the legal necessity of setting aside the convictions of the five defendants based on the new DNA evidence that Mr. Reyes had raped the jogger. did act appropriately. The ones at Schomburg included friends Salaam and Wise, who lived in the northwest tower,[47][48] and Kevin Richardson and Steve Lopez who lived elsewhere in the complex. [55][52], In 1990 the six suspects (incl. Through the night, they apprehended about 20 teenagers. 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