“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.
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.