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During a visit to HuffPost Live Tuesday to discuss his new initiative "Learn the Address," documentary filmmaker Ken Burns gave an update on the ten-year-old Central Park Five civil suit and told host Josh Zepps that New York City's new mayor will finally settle the case.
Burns' 2012 documentary "The Central Park Five" tells the story of five juveniles convicted in 1990 of raping a jogger in Central Park. In 2002, the convictions of the five defendants were vacated when another man confessed to the crime. The following year, the Central Park Five filed a civil suit against the City of New York for their wrongful convictions that, after a decade, has yet to be resolved.
"Bill de Blasio, the mayor-elect, has agreed to settle this case, and though this is justice delayed way too long, and that is justice denied, [they] will not only be exonerated ... but they will have justice, they will see some closure, they will be able to be made whole," Burns said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/bill-de-blasio-central-park-five_n_4262203.html
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)babylonsister
(171,070 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)His intellect and passion??? awesome
elleng
(130,959 posts)spanone
(135,843 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)a case which clearly should have been settled immediately.
I like this guy.
Indykatie
(3,697 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)Thanks for the thread, CatWoman.
CatWoman
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BronxBoy
(2,286 posts)New York was crazy back then and these poor kids were railroaded by a justice system that was determined to convict them.
I wish all of the people having vapors in the thread about the Duke Lacrosse case would come here and pontificate about the egregious nature of the criminal justice system. Seems their concern ends when the accuser is White and the alleged perpetrators are Black
Thanks for posting
BronxBoy
(2,286 posts)because this case is a true illustration of prosecution gone wild.