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The last of six teenagers charged in the near-fatal rape and assault of the woman known as the Central Park jogger was sentenced yesterday to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years as part of a plea bargain. Steven Lopez, 17, pleaded guilty to robbery in the mugging of a male jogger. Charges in the woman's attack were dropped.
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 ...
After a serial rapist confessed to attacking the jogger, the convictions for the Central Park Five were vacated in 2002. The case then became an example of racial profiling, discrimination and ...
Linda Fairstein (born May 5, 1947) [1] is an American author, attorney, and former New York City prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She was the head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney 's office from 1976 until 2002. During that time, she oversaw the prosecution of the Central Park Five ...
A co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge ...
The men were wrongly accused as teenagers of raping and beating a white woman jogging in Central Park in 1989. The four Black men and one Latino man spent years behind bars before their ...
Yusef Salaam (born 1974) is an American politician, motivational speaker, and activist currently serving as a member of the New York City Council, representing the city's 9th council district since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, Salaam was one of the Exonerated Five who were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Central Park in 1989.
August 24, 2024 at 2:06 AM. Thursday at the Democratic National Convention, Rev. Al Sharpton introduced the group known as the " Central Park 5." Invoking the convention refrain "We won't go back ...