Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman who was running in Central Park in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 1989. [1] [2] Crime in New York City was peaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic surged.
The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. [1] It covers the arrests, interrogations, trials, convictions and vacating the convictions of the five men who were teenagers in 1989 at the time of the case.
When They See Us is based on events of the April 19, 1989, Central Park jogger case and explores the lives of the five suspects who were prosecuted on charges related to the sexual assault of a female victim, and of their families.
Due to statute of limitations in New York, Reyes was not charged, but it led to the exoneration of the Central Park Five. The New York Supreme Court vacated the convictions on Dec. 19, 2002.
The Central Park Five sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss the Netflix series When They See Us, in Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now. The Netflix series chronicles the wrongful rape ...
The "Central Park Five," who are now all between the ages of 50 and 52, were wrongly convicted for a series of assaults that occurred in Central Park in New York City on April 19, 1989, according ...
The film, The Central Park Five, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012 and was released on November 23, 2012. A Pulitzer Prize winning opera, The Central Park Five, was also written about the case. [18] In May 2019, Netflix released a four-part drama series, When They See Us, about the case, directed by Ava DuVernay.
New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated group of men known as the Central Park Five, says he was stopped and pulled over by police without being given an explanation.