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To: C19fan

“The most notorious recent example is the 1989 case of the Central Park Five, in which four African-American teens and one Latino were wrongly accused and convicted of brutally raping a white woman in New York.”

Wrongly accused? They confessed and were convicted! The victims’ blood, hair, and DNA was all over them.


8 posted on 12/10/2014 8:03:34 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
The Central Park Five's convicrions were vacated (after they had served heir sentences in full) when another man, already in prison for other heinous crimes, confessed he had committed the rape all alone.

Read about it here (link)

The persuasive physical evidence against the five teens had apparently been misinterpreted. The physical evidence --- according to this account --- better fit the details provided by the man who ultimately confessed.

10 posted on 12/10/2014 9:11:12 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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