The trouble is that for Mr. Burns it is all about the racial fault line between black and white. [36] None of the six had defense attorneys during the interrogations or videotape process. Guilty; sentences ranged from 5–10 years for four juveniles, and 5–15 years for a 16-year-old who was classified as an adult because of the violent nature of the crime. "[97], The five defendants' convictions were vacated by New York Supreme Court Justice Charles J. Tejada on December 19, 2002. [143], Korey Wise (who changed his first name from Kharey after being released from prison) still lives in New York City, where he works as a speaker and justice reform activist. [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. The story of five innocent boys (14-16) railroaded into confessing to a crime they didn't commit by police and prosecutors that just wanted feathers in their cap must touch the heart of any parent of a teenage boy. Since 1986 judges were generally assigned by lottery,[53] but the court administrator assigned him to this case. Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts. After the guilty verdicts, the judge sentenced the defendants to the maximum for the charges and their ages. [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. In many other respects the defendants' statements were not corroborated by, consistent with, or explanatory of objective, independent evidence. The Central Park Five was a group of five juvenile males, four African Americans, Yusef Salaam, 16, Anthony McCray, 16, Kharey Wise, 18, and Kevin Richardson, 16, and one Hispanic, Raymond Santana, 15, all from the New York City, New York neighborhood of Harlem, who were variously tried and convicted of attempted murder, rape, sodomy, and the assault of Trisha Meili, 28, … [71] He serves as a criminal justice advocate with the Innocence Project and spoke in New York to audiences with Richardson and Salaam to advocate passage of the New York State justice reform law that passed in 2017. 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On April 26, 1989, The New York Times published a cautionary editorial against the use of labels and questioning why such "well-adjusted youngsters" could have committed such a "savage" crime. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the … [6][8][9] At a pre-trial hearing in October 1989, a police officer testified that when Loughlin was found, he was bleeding so badly that he "looked like he was dunked in a bucket of blood".[10]. This also enabled them being removed from New York State's sex offender registry. He had denied any knowledge of the rape in his videotaped confession, but was implicated by other defendants' statements. He is married, has six children, and lives and works in Georgia. 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. Central Park Five Tragedy Reframed in Netflix Series “When They See Us” Watch the Ava DuVernay-directed story on Netflix and learn more about how the legal system and media robbed five innocent teens of their presumption of innocence and so much more. But so far we believe that the N.Y.P.D. [8] None of the five said that he had raped the jogger, but each confessed to having been an accomplice to the rape. [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. 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. The prosecutors in that case were also falling all over themselves making political hay. Advertisement. [18][123][124] She also works with victims of sexual assault and brain injury in the Mount Sinai Hospital sexual assault and violence intervention program. In this prison, Wise met Matias Reyes, who was later found to have had actually assaulted and raped Meili. Each earned a GED and also completed an associate degree while there. While the confessions were videotaped, the hours of interrogation that preceded the confessions were not. "[15], Meili was so badly injured that she was in a coma for 12 days. Like the five others, he was also indicted on charges related to the attack and robbery of Loughlin. 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And some of what they said was simply contrary to established fact. "[75][101] The panel was chaired by attorney Michael F. Armstrong, the former chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, which in 1972 had documented widespread corruption in the NYPD. But Korey and Ray and Antron and Kevin and Yussef are extraordinary people, and I thank Mr. Burns and his daughter Sara for permitting us to know their story. [52] Reyes provided officials with a detailed account of the attack, details of which were corroborated by other evidence which the police held. Many consider the interrogation techniques to have been coercive and they have been subject to wide criticism. Living in Georgia, he is married with ten children. The other five defendants pleaded guilty to assault before trial and received lesser sentences. [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]. ''As far as I can tell, the N.Y.P.D. [138], Advances in DNA analysis and the work of non-profit groups such as the Innocence Project have resulted in 343 people being exonerated of their crimes from as of July 31, 2016 due to DNA testing. None of the suspects' DNA matched the DNA collected from the crime scene: two semen samples that both belonged to one unidentified man. It was not until 1:30 a.m. that night that a female jogger was found in the North Woods area of the park. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. This account of the term "wilding" was soon disputed by investigative reporter Barry Michael Cooper, who said that it originated in a police detective's misunderstanding of the suspects' use of the phrase "doing the wild thing", lyrics from rapper Tone Loc's hit song "Wild Thing". None of the three defense attorneys cross-examined her. He said the settlement was "a disgrace", and that the men were likely guilty: "Settling doesn't mean innocence. 4 of 9 View All. He cited this as among his reasons to retract his endorsement of the candidate. Part One 64m. [52] The semen belonged to another, unidentified male. [87], District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office was notified of the confession in 2002. "[43] Protests were held outside Trump Tower in October 2002 with protestors chanting, "Trump is a chump! [8], Salaam allegedly made verbal admissions to the police. 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. Central Park Five may also refer to: The … 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. [140] In 2018 he started a clothing company, Park Madison NYC, named for the avenues near his former home in New York. [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. The prosecutor planned to try the defendants in two groups and then scheduled the sixth defendant to be tried last. 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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. [7][65] Wise was convicted of lesser charges of sexual abuse, assault, and riot in the attack on the female jogger and on Loughlin. The police said up to 12 youths were believed to have attacked the jogger. [91][74][92] Reyes claimed he came forward because "it was the right thing to do". Because Lopez had not acknowledged participating at all in the rape in his statement to police, and prosecution witnesses had withdrawn from testifying, based on what they said was fear of self-recrimination or "fear of their own safety", according to Lederer, the prosecution's case was extremely weak. Yusef Salaam, left, is led away by a … The Central Park Five – Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise were all teens under 18 when they were convicted of raping Central Park … [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. The city did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement. 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. [16][17], The initial medical prognosis was that Meili would die of her injuries. On April 19, 1989, police were scrambling to respond to calls about teens harassing people in Central Park. All later had their charges vacated after a prison inmate confessed to the crime. 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