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...'They admitted they were guilty' Donald Trump continues to hammer away at the Central Park Five even though they have long been exonerated for the rape of a jogger in 1989. The Republican presidential candidate told CNN in a statement this week that "they admitted they were guilty. The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same." The five teens spent several years in jail, but the charges were dropped in 2002 after...

Twenty-five years ago, Trisha Meili—“the Central Park jogger”—was a 28 year-old employee for a prestigious Manhattan investment banker when she was mercilessly beaten, raped, and left for dead by thugs. Meili lost approximately 80 percent of her blood. Her skull was fractured to the point that her one eye had popped out of its socket. On the scale of 3 to 15 that neurologists use to gauge brain functioning, Meili’s was assigned a rating of 4. She spent nearly the next two weeks in a coma, with experts expecting her to die. This crime became a racially explosive issue,...

OPINION -- With the June 25 announcement by conservative Republican Jack Ryan that he was dropping out of the U.S. Senate race for Illinois, the seat falls to Democrat candidate Barack Obama virtually by default. But who is Barack Obama? Is the charming, handsome, articulate 42-year-old state senator who dominated a field of six in the March 16 Democrat primary with 53 percent of the vote, the herald of a “new kind of politics” or merely a new voice calling for the same old, racist, urban welfare politics the Democrat Party has promoted for forty years? On June 4, New...

A recent news story about a mouse born to two “mommies” [1] suggested that the feminist fantasy of parthenogenesis, in which women would bear children without any “input” from men, might someday be realized. But New York Times columnist Bob Herbert [2] went the pc feminists at the ABC one better: On June 4, he suggested that Illinois politician Barack Obama was birthed by Obama’s father, without a female (what used to be called a “mother”) playing any role in the matter. O.K., Herbert didn’t actually say that, though he’s said things just as outrageous in the past. What he...

STAMFORD -- The local woman who became known as the Central Park jogger after being raped, beaten and left for dead 14 years ago is ready to share her story. She also is ready to tell the world her name. The woman, now in her early 40s, will make her first public speaking appearance April 10 at the Holiday Inn Select in Stamford at an event promoting Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Her appearance, hosted by the Stamford-based Sexual Assault Crisis and Education Center, will come two days after her book about the ordeal is published. ... Doctors didn't expect her...

Jogger case: Cop version rings true Short shrift has been given to the Police Department version of what happened in April 1989 when black and Latino kids went on a rampage in Central Park - the most notorious victim being the Central Park Jogger. The report may get even less attention, now that the nation is focused on grieving for the Columbia astronauts, God bless them. But there are other matters for us to consider. Did the cops screw up by charging five minority kids with the rape? I am not convinced of the cops' culpability - or the Central...

On December 5, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Tejada to vacate the convictions of five men in the 1989 Central Park Jogger attack, as well as for attacks on other victims the same night. Defendants Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Kharey Wise have all completed their prison sentences. On December 19, Tejada granted Morgenthau his wish. The men were convicted variously of rape, sexual assault, attempted murder, and riot in the first degree. They were part of a group of as many as forty predominantly black teenagers (the others were...

<p>December 24, 2002 -- The criminal case is over - and now lawyers for the "Central Park 5" want the criminal inquiry to begin.</p> <p>"The next stage . . . is to discover how this terrible tragedy happened and to make those responsible for it accountable," said Roger Wareham, a lawyer for three of the five.</p>

Toogood Reports [Monday, December 16, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ December 5, 2002 is a date that shall live in infamy. On that day, Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau issued "get-out-of-jail-free" cards to all of New York City's young black thugs. In response, we can expect even more brazen racial attacks on whites, and an increase in whites leaving the city to protect themselves and their loved ones. On December 5, Morgenthau submitted a work of legal fiction disguised as a brief, to New York State Supreme Court Judge Charles Tejada, calling for the convictions of Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond...

On December 5, I sent the following letter to the New York Times. You can bet the ranch the newspaper, which stopped printing my letters five years ago, will never publish it. To the Editor: In your December 6 editorial ("Injustice in the Jogger Case") supporting Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau's call to exonerate the five men convicted in the 1989 Central Park Jogger case, you write, "Fair-minded people are appalled by the prosecutorial missteps and overreaching that led to the faulty convictions of five teenagers..." I submit that fair-minded people who have followed the case since its bloody inception, are...

A Different Drummer [November, 2002] In an increasingly multicultural, urban environment, it becomes more and more difficult to achieve justice, as racial and ethnic activist groups seek not only to impede the prosecution of the apparently guilty, but to undo successful prosecutions, after the fact. The most striking example of this development, is the attempt underway to undo the convictions of five of the attackers in what came to be known as the Central Park Jogger Case. And so, five cold-blooded thugs: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise, Yusuf Salaam and Raymond Santana, have now been nominated for urban sainthood....