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Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS! Somebody had to pay the price. In 2003, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana Jr., and Antron McCray sued the City of New York for malicious prosecution, racial discrimination, and emotional distress. It took place in the public park that is "mythologized as the city's verdant, democratic refuge". As Morgenthau recommended, Tejada's order vacated the convictions for all the crimes of which the defendants had been convicted. [96] Morgenthau would later express regret assigning the case to Fairstein, saying "I had complete confidence in Linda Fairstein. ‘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. President Donald Trump has faced criticism for his treatment of the Central Park Five, beginning with a 1989 ad campaign. [39], The main suspects were a sub-group[citation needed] within the loose gang of 30 to 32 teenagers who had assaulted strangers in the park as part of an activity that the police said the teenagers referred to as "wilding". [citation needed], Normal police procedures stipulated that the names of criminal suspects under the age of 16 were to be withheld from the media and the public. [101][102] It said there was "nothing but his uncorroborated word" that he acted alone. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. [55] He said that Salaam's statement was being admitted as evidence because Salaam had lied to police about his age and showed them false identification. 20 talking about this. ANTHONY DAVIS won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his score for THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE. Orlando Escobar, 16, was indicted for three counts of robbery, two counts of assault, and one count of riot-related to the attack on John Loughlin. [42], Reverend Calvin O. Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, who came to support the five suspects, said to The New York Times, "The first thing you do in the United States of America when a white woman is raped is round up a bunch of black youths, and I think that's what happened here."[24]. Steve Lopez) indicted in the attack on the female jogger and other crimes were scheduled for trial. Reyes confessed and Wise was released in 2002. 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. [34] He was sentenced in March 1991 to 1½ to 4½ years, after pleading guilty to the mugging of jogger John Loughlin. 4762/89", "True Confession of The Central Park Rapist", "Who Is Matias Reyes? [74] Reyes was believed to have raped another woman in the same area of the park during the day on April 17, two days before the attack on Meili. The trial proceeded. [39] The police described the attacks as "random" and "motiveless", saying they had "terrorized" people in the park. [140] In 2018 he started a clothing company, Park Madison NYC, named for the avenues near his former home in New York. Within the North Woods, between 105th and 102nd streets, they were reported as attacking several bicyclists, hurling rocks at a cab, and attacking a pedestrian, whom they robbed of his food and beer, and left unconscious. 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 donated $190,000 of his 2014 settlement to the chapter of the Innocence Project at the University of Colorado Law School, to aid other wrongfully convicted people to gain exoneration. [7], Reyes' confession occurred after the statute of limitations had passed and the Central Park Five had already served their sentences. [47] The Schomburg was a large, mixed-income complex with two 35-story towers and an associated multi-story rectangular building. [147] Decoteau had made a plea deal in February in which he agreed to testify against the other two. The story of the American activist struggle against the influence of alcohol, climaxing in the failed early 20th century nationwide era when it was banned. Co-directed, written and produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon. Four of the defendants appealed their convictions, but these were affirmed by appellate courts. [9] New York Governor Mario Cuomo told the New York Post: "This is the ultimate shriek of alarm. He neither made a videotape nor signed the earlier written statement, but the court ruled to accept it as evidence before his trial. [71] Among their goals was required videotaping of interrogations by law enforcement; such a law was passed by the New York State legislature and went into effect on April 1, 2018. These were:[6][8]. [76][77][78] That year, Reyes informed a corrections officer that he had raped Meili. This also enabled them being removed from New York State's sex offender registry. [22] She largely recovered, with some lingering disabilities related to balance and loss of vision. [51], Each of the suspects had made different errors in time and place about the jogger attack in their confessions, with most placing it near the reservoir. [45], Six youths were indicted with attempted murder and other charges in the attack on and rape of the female jogger, and additional charges related to the attack of David Lewis, the attack and robbery of John Loughlin, and riot:[8][35]. He was right in front of my face and, in essence, calling me a slut by asking questions like 'When's the last time you had sex with your boyfriend? While they acknowledged "witnessing or participating in other wrongdoing" in the park, they each maintained innocence in the attack of Meili. [120] The settlement averaged roughly $1 million for each year of imprisonment that each of the men had served. Two newspapers aimed at the African-American community—The City Sun and the Amsterdam News—and the black-owned talk radio station WLIB continued to cover the case as it progressed. Focusing on rapes in the same week as the one in Central Park, The New York Times reported on April 29, 1990, on the "28 other first-degree rapes or attempted rapes reported across New York City". [6] Some of the group committed several attacks, assaults, and robberies against people who were either walking, biking, or jogging in the northernmost part of the park and near the reservoir, and victims began to report the incidents to police.[7]. The story of the Central Park Five became a lightning rod for opportunistic politicians, a bloodthirsty media, and inevitably formed into a rallying cry for a fairer justice system and more oversight for law enforcement. 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By Celina Daigle On the night of April 19, 1989 five young and innocent men were arrested and soon to be falsely convicted for the attack and rape of Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman jogging through Central Park. Santana was 14 when he was arrested in 1989 and was incarcerated for close to seven years for the jogger case. Yusef Salaam served 6 years and 8 months in juvenile detention from 1990 to 1996 and was released on parole. Davis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for the opera on May 4, 2020. [88] Morgenthau appointed a team led by Assistant District Attorneys Nancy Ryan and Peter Casolaro to investigate the case, based on Reyes's confession and a review of evidence. [52] Reyes provided officials with a detailed account of the attack, details of which were corroborated by other evidence which the police held. [95] All five of the defendants had completed their prison sentences at the time of Tejada's order; their names were cleared in relation to this case. [50] Only Wise made any statement about the different times and locations of the jogger attack, and detectives had taken him to the park to the crime scene before he made his videotaped confession. Written by The Central Park Five A documentary about the 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the great depression. [8] Kevin Richardson, 14 years old at the time of the crime, had been free on $25,000 bail before the trial. From the outset the case was a topic of national interest, with the commentary on social issues evolving as the details emerged. [7], The second trial, of Kevin Richardson and Korey Wise, began October 22, 1990[61] and also lasted about two months, ending in December. (January 27, 2003). [8], Salaam allegedly made verbal admissions to the police. [8] After the verdict, Wise shouted at the prosecutor: "You're going to pay for this. Initially the Meili case was investigated as a homicide, and the April 17 rape was investigated as a rape assault, which resulted in a lack of comparison of the DNA recovered in the two cases. [52][73], Through this period, each of the five continued to maintain their innocence in the rape and attack of Meili, including at hearings before parole boards. "[101], The report concluded that the five men whose convictions had been vacated had "most likely" participated in the beating and rape of the jogger and that the "most likely scenario" was that "both the defendants and Reyes assaulted her, perhaps successively. Michael Vigna, a competitive bike rider hassled about 9:05 p.m. by the group, one of whom tried to punch him. [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. In this prison, Wise met Matias Reyes, who was later found to have had actually assaulted and raped Meili. He cited this as among his reasons to retract his endorsement of the candidate. [52], Numerous pretrial hearings were conducted by Judge Thomas B. Galligan of the State Supreme Court of Manhattan, who had been assigned the case. They arranged plea deals with the prosecution in October 1990 before trial; the first two were sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison. [148] Social justice activists and critics have pointed to the lack of extensive coverage of the attack of the woman in Brooklyn as showing the media's racial bias; they have accused it of overlooking violence against minority women. [125] She continues to manifest some after-effects of the assault, including memory loss. A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence. Worse, one can't help but wonder how such a miscarriage of justice could have happened with everybody watching. [93] At the time of his confession, Reyes had been convicted and sentenced to life in state prison for raping and robbing four other women in the summer of 1989, murdering one of them and robbing another. [46], Wise had to serve all of his time in adult prison, and encountered so much personal violence that he asked to stay in isolation for extended periods. He lived at 102nd Street, in what locals considered another neighborhood. Co-directed, written and produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon. Richardson's defense counsel made a motion for a mistrial, because of the potential effect on the jury, but the judge rejected it. At 9 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a group of an estimated 30–32 teenagers who lived in East Harlem entered Manhattan's Central Park at an entrance in Harlem, near Central Park North. [71][141] As noted, Salaam was an advocate for the law passed in New York in 2018 requiring videotaping of accused subjects in all custodial interrogations for serious crimes. [64] Because of his age and the violent nature of the felony charge, he was tried and sentenced as an adult, receiving 5–15 years in adult prison. The families of Lopez,[34] Richardson,[35] and Salaam[46] were able to make the $25,000 bail imposed by the court. This was the age at which a suspect could be questioned without a parent or guardian present. [8] None of the five said that he had raped the jogger, but each confessed to having been an accomplice to the rape. Alternatively, doctors thought that she might remain in a permanent coma due to her injuries. The five men sued the city for discrimination and emotional distress; the city settled in 2014 for $41 million. 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. These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels. The police arrested additional suspects over 48 hours after the night of April 19 and interrogated numerous others. [91][74][92] Reyes claimed he came forward because "it was the right thing to do". [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. In 2003, the five men sued the City of New York for malicious prosecution, racial discrimination, and emotional distress; they reached a $41 million settlement with the city government in 2013, and an additional $3.9 million in monetary compensation from the state in 2016. Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida. [citation needed] Since 1989, New York and some 24 other states have passed laws requiring "electronic records of full interrogations". The confessions of the Central Park Five were wildly contradictory and at odds with what was thought to be the known timeline of events relating to the rape that night. On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump, then a real estate magnate, called for the return of the death penalty for murder in full-page advertisements published in all four of the city's major newspapers. It was 18" wide. These five just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, admittedly doing the wrong thing (running with a mob of teens committing random attacks on white joggers and bicyclists), and the cops needed convenient suspects who were young and vulnerable enough to be manipulated into confessing to the most serious crime that occurred that night. 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. A study by the National Registry of Exonerations found that black people convicted of murder or sexual assault are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to be later found innocent of the crimes. "[131] During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump again said that the Central Park Five were guilty and that their convictions should not have been vacated. [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. But we rectified it. Filmmaker Ken Burns takes a look at how the five black and Latino teenagers were imprisoned for the attack on a white female for which they were innocent. They are known as the Central Park Five, a name they came to share 30 years ago, after a young white woman named Trisha Meili went for a jog in New York's Central Park… The sentences each of them served is as follows: On appeal, Salaam's attorneys charged that he had been held by police without access to parents or guardians. [52] Years later, more advanced DNA testing also revealed that the hairs in Richardson's clothes did not match the victim.[67]. The deck is too stacked. Common factors had been ruled out. Because of this, editors of The City Sun and the Amsterdam News chose to use Meili's name in their continuing coverage of the events. In addition to having had difficulty getting employment or renting housing, as registered offenders, they had been required to report to authorities in person every three months. [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. [95], Linda Fairstein, who had directed the original prosecution, has agreed with the decision to vacate the rape charges but believes the separate assault charges on other individuals in the park should have remained. [140], Yusef Salaam has been an advocate for reform in the criminal justice system and prisons, particularly for juveniles. [16][17][28][126], In 2014, after New York City had settled the wrongful conviction suit, some figures returned to the media to dispute the court's 2002 decision to vacate the convictions. [26] She is the daughter and youngest of three children of John Meili, a Westinghouse senior manager, and his wife Jean, a school board member. A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. Four of the five in the Meili case were convicted in 1990 of rape, assault, and other charges; one of these was convicted of attempted murder; one was convicted on lesser charges but as an adult. Each earned a GED and also completed an associate degree while there. "[24], As identified by the Morgenthau report and The New York Times in a 2002 review of the case, several acts of violence were perpetrated that night by a group of more than 30 teenagers. He served 13 years and 8 months in multiple state prisons: Rikers' Island Prison in 1990, Attica Correctional Facility in 1991, Wende State Penitentiary in 1993 and Auburn State Correctional Facility in 2001. Together they claimed that they had been intimidated, lied to, and coerced by police into making false confessions. They renamed the project in his honor as the Korey Wise Innocence Project. 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. The police said up to 12 youths were believed to have attacked the jogger. [101][102][103][104][105] The panel issued a 43-page report in January 2003. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. Their convictions and a handful of other high-profile incidents during the Dinkins administration paved the way for the election of Rudolph Giuliani as mayor and a new era of proactive law enforcement and a relentless stop-and-frisk campaign aimed at black and Latino men in the city's poorer communities.Does the film make its case without flaws? The four youths under 16 were sentenced to 5–10 years each. The other five defendants pleaded guilty to assault before trial and received lesser sentences. [40][41] There was massive media coverage of the conference, with the rape and beating of the female jogger especially recounted in dramatic, inflammatory language. Jesus is going to get you. [14][17], In early June, Meili was transferred to Gaylord Hospital, a long-term acute care center in Wallingford, Connecticut, where she spent six months in rehabilitation. Four of the teenagers in the Meili case served 6–7 years in juvenile facilities; one, sentenced as an adult, served 13 years. [1], Patricia Ellen Meili[25] was born on June 24, 1960 in Paramus, New Jersey, and raised in Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. From Wings to Parasite, here's a look back at all of the Best Picture Oscar winners in the history of the ceremony. When Meili first emerged from her coma, she was unable to talk, read, or walk. I do not think so. Jermaine Robinson, 15, was indicted on multiple counts of robbery and assault in the attacks on Lewis and John Loughlin, another jogger near the reservoir. False confessions and the jogger case. In April 2003, Meili confirmed her identity to the media when she published a memoir entitled I Am the Central Park Jogger. [15][16][27][31], Meili lived on East 83rd Street between York and East End avenues in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, 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, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice. [71], Kevin Richardson is married and lives with his family in New Jersey. The city did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. 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. Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts. This documentary chronicles the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. [122], Meili returned to work at the investment bank. [62], The defense attorneys noted that each youth had limited intellectual ability and said that neither was capable of preparing the written statements or videotaped confessions submitted by the prosecution as evidence. [121], As of December 2014, the five men were pursuing an additional $52 million in damages from New York State in the New York Court of Claims, before Judge Alan Marin. Within weeks, they each withdrew their confessions, pleaded not guilty, and refused plea deals on the rape and assault charges. Donald Trump won't leave me alone", Exclusive: Central Park Five Members Blast Trump for Insisting They're Guilty, "The Interview: Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions? He was left unconscious but soon found by a policeman. [34] He was also interrogated.[35]. [8] In his untaped confession, Salaam claimed to have struck the jogger with a pipe at the beginning of the incident. [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. [111][112][113][114][115][116], Under newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City announced a settlement in June 2014 in the case for about $40 million. According to a 2016 study by Craig J. Trocino, director of the Miami Law Innocence Clinic, 27 percent of those persons had "originally confessed to their crimes. 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. Among them were four African American and two Hispanic American teenagers who were indicted on May 10 on charges of assault, robbery, riot, rape, sexual abuse, and the attempted murders of Meili and an unrelated man, John Loughlin. After Reyes confessed to the crime and said he acted alone, defense counselor Michael W. Warren said, "I think Donald Trump at the very least owes a real apology to this community and to the young men and their families. This FAQ is empty. 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 . [2][43] The advertisement, which cost an estimated US$85,000 (equivalent to $175,000 in 2019),[2][43] said, in part, Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. It was not until 1:30 a.m. that night that a female jogger was found in the North Woods area of the park. [21] She returned to work eight months after the attack. [62] They contended that the confessions had been coerced from youths vulnerable to pressure because of their age and their intellectual capacity. Other residents living at the Schomburg Plaza, where four suspects lived, were also threatened. Bring Back Our Police! [6] Lopez was interviewed on videotape in the presence of his parents on April 21, 1989, beginning at 3:30 a.m. With Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise, Raymond Santana. After the guilty verdicts, the judge sentenced the defendants to the maximum for the charges and their ages. Antonio Montalvo, 18, was charged with two counts of robbery and one of assault, related to the attack on Antonio Diaz. [147], 1989 crime involving the beating and rape of a jogger in New York City, "Central Park Five" redirects here. None of the suspects' DNA matched the DNA collected from the crime scene: two semen samples that both belonged to one unidentified man. [128][129] But a forensic pathologist who testified at the 1990 trial said that it was impossible to tell from the victim's injuries how many people had participated in the assault, as did New York City's chief medical examiner in 2002. ", In 2016, the five men received an award of $3.9 million against the State of New York for additional damages caused by the economic and emotional devastation caused by their incarceration.The original lawsuit had requested $51 million in addition to the previously awarded $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. I think it would have been good to know if the police had direct evidence of these boys' participation in other crimes that night. After further investigation, he was never indicted, and all charges were dismissed against him on October 31, 1989. [56], In a 2016 Guardian article, defense counsel William Warren was reported saying that he thought Trump's ads in 1989 had played a role in securing conviction by the juries, saying that "he poisoned the minds of many people who lived in New York City and who, rightfully, had a natural affinity for the victim. She fell 50 feet, suffering severe injuries. "[45] In 2019 Time magazine also assessed Trump's ads in 1989 as having adversely affected the case for the defendants. 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. She came out of her coma after 12 days. The Central Park Five are Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Kharey Wise, who later changed his first name to Korey. Here's the Real History Behind When They See Us", Cristina Costantini, "Film Gives Voice to Men Falsely Convicted in Central Park Jogger Case", "What really happened to Korey Wise in prison? [72] He was released in August 2002, the last of the five men to leave prison. The two other youths under 16 were returned to a juvenile facility to be held there until trial. At a press conference in 2014, de Blasio made a public statement about the settlements. Kassin, Saul (November 1, 2002). 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. Korey Wise was sentenced to 6–15 years in prison on sexual abuse, assault and riot. Although Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Lederer had said she would not accept a plea deal for any of the defendants indicted in the rape case, she did come to agreement with Steve Lopez and his attorney in the court on January 30, 1991, prior to a new jury being selected for his trial. "[97], The five defendants' convictions were vacated by New York Supreme Court Justice Charles J. Tejada on December 19, 2002. [16] She worked from the summer of 1986 until the attack as an associate and then a vice president in the corporate finance department and energy group of Salomon Brothers, an investment bank. Five male teenagers indicted for raping a woman and other charges; another was given a plea deal and pleaded guilty to assault; four other teenagers were indicted for assault and other charges related to attacks on other persons that night in the park. Outset the case, and the MYTH of the incident received little media coverage in May 1989, teenagers. 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