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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.
Korey Wise (born Kharey Wise, July 26, 1972) [1] [2] is an American activist who travels the United States advocating for criminal justice reform.Wise shares his stories of being wrongfully convicted in the Central Park jogger case (along with Raymond Santana Jr., Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, and Yusef Salaam) for the attack on Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman who was jogging in ...
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.
Members of the “Central Park Five” sued former President Donald Trump on Monday over “false and defamatory” statements they allege he made about their 1989 case during a presidential ...
The exonerated Central Park Five sued former President Trump for defamation Monday over his comments at the recent presidential debate about the group’s wrongful convictions for rape and assault.
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.
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 ...
On April 19, 1989, Trisha Meili, a woman jogging in Central Park, was assaulted and raped by Matias Reyes. [a] Authorities accused Salaam, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray and Raymond Santana of assaulting her; the five teenagers—of Black and Latino race—became known as the "Central Park Five," later the "Exonerated Five."