Posted on 11/16/2024 7:10:12 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Afederal judge on Friday agreed to recuse himself from overseeing the exonerated Central Park Five’s defamation lawsuit against President-elect Trump.
Shanin Specter, the Central Park Five’s lead attorney, disclosed earlier this week he has been friends with the judge since childhood and represented him and his wife in legal matters.
“Defendant respectfully submits that a reasonable person would question the Court’s impartiality in this matter, and therefore seeks recusal,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in a motion requesting that U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson remove himself from the trial.
Baylson, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, quickly agreed to the request after the plaintiffs indicated they did not oppose his recusal.
The suit will now be reassigned to another judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where the case was filed.......
The Central Park Five sued Trump for defamation last month over his comments at September’s presidential debate about the group’s wrongful convictions.
The five Black and Hispanic teenagers were wrongfully found guilty of the 1989 rape and assault of a woman jogging in New York City’s Central Park. They spent years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 2002, once the true culprit confessed, something corroborated by DNA evidence.
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They better be careful. If Trump loses this one, there is much precedence for further lawsuits from trump of which he has a few right now.
He will win more than he loses.
Anyone who thinks these 5 weren’t involved in the “wilding” attacks in Central Park that night isn’t paying attention.
Very biased article that leaves out key facts such as the confessions and convictions. It also leaves out the fact (I believe it is undisputed) that the defendants were in fact roaming the park committing violent crimes at the time and that one or more of them may have attacked the victim in some way in addition to the later DNA match perp.
THey were convicted...defamed?? no simply in agreement with the court...in other words...it wasn’t personal.
ANN COULTER: Central Park Rape—Councilman Yusef Salaam STILL Guilty As Hell
https://web.archive.org/web/20231117134403/https://vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-central-park-rape-councilman-yusef-salaam-still-guilty-as-hell
Here’s just some of the evidence against The Five:When Santana was being driven to the precinct house for general mayhem, he blurted out: “I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel the woman’s tits.”
At this point, the jogger’s body hadn’t been found yet. The police knew nothing about any rape.
Another boy, picked up with Richardson, told the police that he knew who did “the murder,” naming McCray. Richardson concurred, saying, “Yeah. That’s who did it.”
Again, the police were unaware of any rape or murder.
The next morning, Richardson pointed to the 102nd Street transverse, telling officers, “This is where we got her.”
Dennis Commedo, part of the larger group wilding that night, told the police that, when he ran into Richardson, he had said, “We just raped somebody.”
Two of Wise’s friends said that the next day, he told them, ”You heard about that woman that was beat up and raped in the park last night? That was us!”
Another boy arrested for some of the other attacks, but not the rape, told detectives (on videotape) that he overheard Santana and a friend laughing about how they’d “made a woman bleed.”
A number of the youths brought in the night of the attack implicated Salaam (our newly elected councilman) in the jogger’s rape.
Orlando Escobar, for example, told police he saw Salaam (our newly elected councilman) and others leaving the 102nd Street transverse where the jogger was raped.
Blood stains were found on Salaam’s jacket. (He’s our newly elected councilman.)
Salaam (our newly elected councilman) confessed to the rape after the detective questioning him said that fingerprints had been found on the jogger’s clothing.
Why would he do that—unless he knew the prints might be his?
Four of The Five gave videotaped confessions, at least three of them in the presence of parents or guardians. Defense attorneys spent weeks attacking the confessions as “coerced,” but two multicultural juries and the trial judge concluded that the confessions were voluntary.
Surely there’s a “statute of limitations” here(?).
This is absurd.
With all that, how did they get cleared?
Once Election Day came and went, these guys and their lawyers are now left holding their shmekels in their hands — and they really don’t want to go to trial.
Lots and lots of disinformation - New York City judges.
President Trump needs to recuse himself from this lawsuit since it is a known fact that it is impossible for him to get a fair trial in the “courts” in this country.
Can anyone nowadays be sued for criticizing how a judicial process turned out?
How many years ago did this happen?
Isn’t there a statute of limitations?
the incident happened ages ago, but the alleged defamation just occured
BTTT
“The five Black and Hispanic teenagers were wrongfully found guilty of the 1989 rape and assault of a woman jogging in New York City’s Central Park. “
They bashed a woman’s head with a brick and raped her. They confessed on videotape, with their parents in the room, and the confession was not coerced, the video proves this. We live in a sick world.
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