None of the six defendants in the rape mentioned him by name in association with the rape. Richardson was found guilty of attempted murder, rape, assault and robbery. Sentenced to five to 10 years in prison, he was released after serving six. The woman, identified in the media as the Central Park Jogger until she made her name public in 2003, had been bludgeoned with a rock, tied up, raped and left for dead. The severely beaten Meili was not found until 1:30 a.m. on April 20. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Jesus is going to get you. On the other hand, there was a general consistency that ran through the defendants' descriptions of the attack on the female jogger: she was knocked down on the road, dragged into the woods, hit and molested by several defendants, sexually abused by some while others held her arms and legs, and left semiconscious in a state of undress.[103][104]. [6] The videotaped confessions were not started until April 21. [42], Reverend Calvin O. Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, who came to support the five suspects, said to The New York Times, "The first thing you do in the United States of America when a white woman is raped is round up a bunch of black youths, and I think that's what happened here."[24]. 4762/89", "True Confession of The Central Park Rapist", "Who Is Matias Reyes? He was held at four different prisons, having asked for transfers in the hope of improving his situation. [47], Six youths were indicted with attempted murder and other charges in the attack on and rape of the female jogger, and additional charges related to the attack of David Lewis, the attack and robbery of John Loughlin, and riot:[8][35]. [51], Four of the five had confessed to police about other attacks in the park in other areas on the night of April 19, including the assault and robbery of John Loughlin, to which they said they were witnesses or participants. The New York Post’s Pete Hamill wrote that the teens hailed “from a world of crack, welfare, guns, knives, indifference and ignorance…a land with no fathers…to smash, hurt, rob, stomp, rape. The boys later recanted and plead not guilty, saying their confessions had been coerced. [153] Social justice activists and critics have pointed to the lack of extensive coverage of the attack of the woman in Brooklyn as showing the media's racial bias; they have accused it of overlooking violence against minority women. And some of what they said was simply contrary to established fact. "[142], Members of the Five have been among activists who have advocated for videotaped interrogations and related reforms to try to prevent false confessions. [36] None of the six had defense attorneys during the interrogations or videotape process. They arranged plea deals with the prosecution in October 1990 before trial; the first two were sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison. Many consider the interrogation techniques to have been coercive and they have been subject to wide criticism. Richardson lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters. The radical and countercultural movements of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Watergate scandal, the Vietnam War, uncertainty in the Middle East and economic crisis at home had undermined ...read more, Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. [73], Raymond Santana had been out of prison for six months before he was found guilty of possessing of crack cocaine in 1998 and reincarcerated for a term of 3.5 to 7 years. In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were convicted of raping a white woman, Trisha Meili, while she was jogging in New York City’s Central Park. [8] As such, they were each sentenced by Judge Thomas B. Galligan to the maximum allowed for juveniles, 5–10 years each in a youth correctional facility. "[15], Meili was so badly injured that she was in a coma for 12 days. She was brutally beaten, suffering major blood loss and skull fractures; she was later revealed to have been raped. They took into custody 14 or more other suspects over the next few days and arrested a total of ten suspects who were ultimately tried for the attacks. The crime was splashed across front pages for months, with the teens depicted as symbols of violence and called “bloodthirsty,” “animals,” “savages” and “human mutations,” the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism and research organization, reports. Salaam is a published poet, public speaker and criminal justice reform advocate. [135][136] Other critics included U.S. Raymond Santana served 6 years and 8 months in juvenile detention from 1990 to 1996 and was released on parole. In a plea deal, he pleaded guilty on March 14, 1991, to attempted robbery in second degree, and was sentenced to 6 months' incarceration and 4½ years' probation. [8][62] Salaam and McCray were 15 years old, and Santana 14 years old, at the time of the crime. [141] The issue of false confessions has become a major topic of study and efforts at criminal justice reform, particularly for juveniles. None of the defendants had legal counsel during questioning. [66] He was sentenced to 5–10 years in a juvenile facility. The park took its name from its signature attraction, a 1,100-foot steel track where patrons could ...read more, An enclosed water slide with a complete loop where customers ended up with bloody noses. Trump said he wanted the "criminals of every age ... to be afraid". At a press conference in 2014, de Blasio made a public statement about the settlements. She was then treated for seven weeks in Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem. [15][16][27][31], Meili lived on East 83rd Street between York and East End avenues in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. [129], Similarly, two doctors who had treated Meili after the attack said in 2014, after the settlement, that some of her injuries appeared to be inconsistent with Reyes's claim that he had acted alone. Designed for families, the complex was built in 1974 and was partially subsidized by the city and federal government; it had 600 households, in apartments ranging in size from studios to five bedrooms. You made this up. Central Park Five Antron McCray (right) was 15 when he was tried and convicted on rape, assault, robbery, and riot charges. ", "https://twitter.com/mattdelmont/status/742711770830102533", "Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers", "Housing Is Dedicated at Schomburg Plaza", "The True Story of How a City in Fear Brutalized the Central Park Five", "A Journey Through the Tangled Case of the Central Park Jogger", "New York Courts Begin One-Case, One-Judge System Today", "Critics Fault Selection Of Judge in Jogger Case", "Central Park Five: What to know about the jogger rape case", "Jury in Jogger Case Deliberates for 9th Day", "Jurors in Jogger Trial Remember A Relentless Period of Testing", "3 Found Guilty in Central Park Jogger Attacks", "In 2d Trial in N.Y. Jogger Attack, Defendants' Admissions are at Issue", "Shouts of 'Lie' Stun 2d Trial in Jogger Rape", "Lawyer for Defense Questions Central Park Jogger", "Witness Says Defendant Said He Held Jogger", "Jogger Trial Jury Relied on Physical Evidence, Not Tapes", "A Crime Revisited: The Decision; 13 Years Later, Official Reversal in Jogger Attack", "President Trump Played a Key Role in the Central Park Five Case. [6][9][14] The first policeman who saw her said: "She was beaten as badly as anybody I've ever seen beaten. [6][8] The teenagers roamed south along the park's East Drive and the 97th Street transverse, between 9 and 10 p.m.[6] Police attempted to apprehend suspects after crimes began to be reported between 9 and 10 p.m. At least some of the group traveled further south to the area around the reservoir, where four men jogging were attacked by several youths. ", In 2016, the five men received an award of $3.9 million against the State of New York for additional damages caused by the economic and emotional devastation caused by their incarceration.The original lawsuit had requested $51 million in addition to the previously awarded $41 million. She fell 50 feet, suffering severe injuries. When taken into custody, Salaam told the police he was 16 years old and showed them identification to that effect. [14] About four hours later at 1:30 am, she was found naked, gagged, and tied, and covered in mud and blood, in a shallow ravine in a wooded area of the park about 300 feet north of the path called the 102nd Street Crossing. He was right in front of my face and, in essence, calling me a slut by asking questions like 'When's the last time you had sex with your boyfriend? The police arrested additional suspects over 48 hours after the night of April 19 and interrogated numerous others. [7], The second trial, of Kevin Richardson and Korey Wise, began October 22, 1990[63] and also lasted about two months, ending in December. Because Lopez had not acknowledged participating at all in the rape in his statement to police, and prosecution witnesses had withdrawn from testifying, based on what they said was fear of self-recrimination or "fear of their own safety", according to Lederer, the prosecution's case was extremely weak. The four juvenile defendants served 6–7 years each; the 16-year-old was tried and sentenced as an adult and served 13 years in an adult prison. Matias Reyes was a positive DNA match to evidence found at the crime scene. [citation needed] Since 1989, New York and some 24 other states have passed laws requiring "electronic records of full interrogations". He serves as a board member of the Innocence Project. [57][54], In 1990 the six suspects (incl. She looked like she was tortured. [52] Only Wise made any statement about the different times and locations of the jogger attack, and detectives had taken him to the park to the crime scene before he made his videotaped confession. After the exonerations, it became a high-profile example of racial profiling, discrimination, and inequality in the media and legal system. Wise lives in New York City, where he works as a public speaker and criminal justice reform advocate. Wise at 16 was tried and sentenced as an adult because of the nature of the violent felony charges against him, under the Juvenile Offender Law of 1978. [61] Meili testified at the trial, but her identity was not given to the court. [96] Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly complained at the time that Morgenthau's staff had denied his detectives access to "important evidence" needed to conduct a thorough investigation. The first was Grand Central Depot, built by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt and opened in 1871, which served as a hub for a number of railroad lines entering Manhattan. In the years since their release, the five men accused in the Central Park case have moved on with their lives. [8], The jury deliberated for 10 days before rendering its verdict on August 18. At the time of the Central Park 5 case in 1989, PACE had been in force for five years, and would have afforded each of the five (all being 16 years or younger) an appropriate adult in interview. [6] She was raped and beaten almost to death. McCray lives in Georgia with his wife and six children. [54][75], Through this period, each of the five continued to maintain their innocence in the rape and attack of Meili, including at hearings before parole boards. New York City senior detectives said the term was used by the suspects when describing their actions to police. Prosecution of the five remaining defendants—Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam—in the rape and assault case was based primarily on confessions which they had made after lengthy police interrogations. She later said in an interview on Oprah: "I'll tell you what—I didn't feel wonderful about the boys' defense attorneys, especially the one who cross-examined me. [54], Later after the Central Park rape, when public attention was on the theory of a gang of young suspects, a brutal attack took place in Brooklyn on May 3, 1989. [14] Because of this, the police treated the attack as a probable homicide. “The Central Park Five” is a true crime book about the huge miscarriage of justice surrounding the convictions of five boys, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam, for the rape and brutal assault of a jogger, Tricia Meili, in Central Park in 1989. He is married, has six children, and lives and works in Georgia. “Had he been born in the forests,” said Gilbert Stuart, who spent hours with George Washington painting the stolid portrait made famous on the dollar bill, “he would have been the fiercest man among the savage tribes.” George Washington’s ...read more. The Central Park jogger case (events also referenced as the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case in the United States over the aggravated assault and rape of a white woman in Manhattan's Central Park on April 19, 1989, occurring during a string of other attacks in the park the same night. Richardson and Santana, both part of the alleged “wolf pack,” were arrested for “unlawful assembly” on April 19, before police learned of the jogger’s attack. She suffered severe hypothermia, severe brain damage, severe hemorrhagic shock, loss of 75–80 percent of her blood, and internal bleeding. in 1982. Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts. [18][125][126] She also works with victims of sexual assault and brain injury in the Mount Sinai Hospital sexual assault and violence intervention program. "[28] In 1986, she earned an M.A. Though we were innocent, we spent our formative years in prison, branded as rapists.”. Initially, the case led to public discourse about New York City's perceived lawlessness, criminal behavior by youths, and violence toward women. [5] The Open Line hosts on WRKS were credited with helping continue to cover the case until the convicted youths were cleared in 2002 of the crime. "[103] But it disputed acceptance of Reyes's claim that he alone had raped the jogger. [145] In 2016, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama. [152], The New York Times continued to report on the case, and followed up on prosecution of suspects. In 2003, the Central Park Five filed a civil lawsuit against New York City for malicious prosecution, racial discrimination and emotional distress. He lived at 102nd Street, in what locals considered another neighborhood. Nothing unearthed since the trials, including Matias Reyes's connection to the attack on the jogger, changes that fact. [145], Yusef Salaam has been an advocate for reform in the criminal justice system and prisons, particularly for juveniles. Although Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Lederer had said she would not accept a plea deal for any of the defendants indicted in the rape case, she did come to agreement with Steve Lopez and his attorney in the court on January 30, 1991, prior to a new jury being selected for his trial. For many people in the United States, the late 1970s were a troubled and troubling time. [148], Korey Wise (who changed his first name from Kharey after being released from prison) still lives in New York City, where he works as a speaker and justice reform activist. [48], Wise had to serve all of his time in adult prison, and encountered so much personal violence that he asked to stay in isolation for extended periods. [7], In addition to the confessions, the filing noted that a "reconstruction of the events in the park has bared a significant conflict, one that was hinted at but not explored in depth at the trials: at the time the jogger was believed to have been attacked, the teenagers were said to be involved—either as spectators or participants—in muggings elsewhere in the park. © 2021 A&E Television Networks, LLC. She began a career as an inspirational speaker. All Rights Reserved. The five other defendants, indicted for assaults of other victims, pleaded guilty to reduced charges and received less severe sentences. [22] She largely recovered, with some lingering disabilities related to balance and loss of vision. Then, the News reported “at least a dozen youths grabbed the woman and dragged her off the path through heavy underbrush and trees, down a ravine toward a small body of water known as The Loch. The complex, which stretched in an “L” shape ...read more, Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that was the site of a disastrous nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. (L-R) Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise, all of whom served prison sentences after being wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case, pictured in New York in 2012. In 2002 a convicted serial rapist and murderer already serving time, confessed to the Meili attack. [73], Richardson and Salaam were released in 1997. Filmmaker Ken Burns takes a look at how the five black and Latino teenagers were imprisoned for the attack on a white female for which they were innocent. [16][17][18][19] Her skull had been fractured so badly that her left eye was dislodged from its socket, which in turn was fractured in 21 places, and she suffered as well from facial fractures. The black and Hispanic teenagers, known as the Central Park Five, were exonerated in 2002. “When we were arrested, the police deprived us of food, drink or sleep for more than 24 hours,” Salaam wrote in the Washington Post years later in 2016. At … Four of the five teens, all from Harlem, confessed on videotape following hours of interrogation. "[47] He noted, "Notwithstanding the jurors' assertions that they could be fair and impartial, some of them or their families, who naturally have influence, had to be affected by the inflammatory rhetoric in the ads. Their confessions varied as to who they identified as having participated in the rape, including naming several youths who were never charged. He was part of an Islamic community and served as a spiritual leader at his youth facility, but talked about how important his mother's visits had been. “The Central Park Five” is a true crime book about the huge miscarriage of justice surrounding the convictions of five boys, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam, for the rape and brutal assault of a jogger, Tricia Meili, in Central Park in 1989. [90] Morgenthau appointed a team led by Assistant District Attorneys Nancy Ryan and Peter Casolaro to investigate the case, based on Reyes's confession and a review of evidence. [147] He currently lives in Georgia, not far from McCray. They also sued New York State, which settled in 2016 for $3.9 million total. [16], Meili was a Phi Beta Kappa economics major at Wellesley College, where she received a B.A. Each earned a GED and also completed an associate degree while there. [73], Kevin Richardson is married and lives with his family in New Jersey. He named others of the group by first names in the group attacks on other persons but denied any knowledge of the female jogger. Senator John McCain, who said that Trump's responses were "outrageous statements about the innocent men in the Central Park Five case." No substantive physical evidence connected any of the five teenagers to the rape scene, but each was convicted in 1990 of related assault and other charges. The accounts given by the five defendants differed from one another on the specific details of virtually every major aspect of the crime—who initiated the attack, who knocked the victim down, who undressed her, who struck her, who held her, who raped her, what weapons were used in the course of the assault, and when in the sequence of events the attack took place. The remaining victims were attacked by members of the large group while jogging near the reservoir: Three of the victims were black or Hispanic, like most of the suspects, complicating any narrative to attribute the attacks solely to racial factors. [58], In a 2016 Guardian article, defense counsel William Warren was reported saying that he thought Trump's ads in 1989 had played a role in securing conviction by the juries, saying that "he poisoned the minds of many people who lived in New York City and who, rightfully, had a natural affinity for the victim. [19], By that time, more information had been published about the primary suspects in the rape, who did not seem to satisfy typical profiles of perpetrators. If a suspect had reached 16 years of age, his parents or guardians no longer had a right to accompany him during police questioning, or to refuse to permit him to answer any questions. "[75] They received a total settlement of $3.9 million from the state in 2016, with varying amounts related to the period of time that each man had served in prison. The ones at Schomburg included friends Salaam and Wise, who lived in the northwest tower,[49][50] and Kevin Richardson and Steve Lopez who lived elsewhere in the complex. [97], Linda Fairstein, who had directed the original prosecution, has agreed with the decision to vacate the rape charges but believes the separate assault charges on other individuals in the park should have remained. [8], Korey Wise, 16 years old at the time of the crime, was acquitted of rape and attempted murder. Together they claimed that they had been intimidated, lied to, and coerced by police into making false confessions. This time one of the defense counsels, Wise's lawyer, cross-examined her. On April 21, senior police investigators held a press conference to announce having apprehended about 20 suspects in the attacks of a total of nine people in Central Park two nights before and began to offer their theory of the attack and rape of the female jogger. [97][100] The city government also withdrew all charges against the men. ... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? [69], Based on the newly discovered evidence, each of the five men who had been convicted of charges related to the rape of Meili filed motions to have their convictions set aside and for the court "to grant whatever further relief may be just and proper."[7]. Kevin Richardson served 7 years in juvenile detention from 1990 to 1997 and was released on parole. The Central Park Five (miniseries), a 2019 TV series about the case, retitled When They See Us At 9 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a group of an estimated 30–32 teenagers who lived in East Harlem entered Manhattan's Central Park at an entrance in Harlem, near Central Park North. Zero eyewitnesses and an implausible prosecution map and timeline of the events. On December 19, 2002, a New York Supreme Court justice vacated the convictions of the five previously accused men. [63], Meili testified again at this trial; again, her name was not given in court. Despite inconsistencies in their stories, no eye witnesses and no DNA evidence linking them to the crime, the five were convicted in two trials in 1990. [53], Each of the suspects had made different errors in time and place about the jogger attack in their confessions, with most placing it near the reservoir. He neither made a videotape nor signed the earlier written statement, but the court ruled to accept it as evidence before his trial. But we rectified it. Because of this, editors of The City Sun and the Amsterdam News chose to use Meili's name in their continuing coverage of the events. [57] He said that Salaam's statement was being admitted as evidence because Salaam had lied to police about his age and showed them false identification. Other residents living at the Schomburg Plaza, where four suspects lived, were also threatened. [54] Reyes provided officials with a detailed account of the attack, details of which were corroborated by other evidence which the police held. Nancy Ryan, an ADA in Morgenthau's office, filed an affirmation supporting motions by the defendants to vacate their convictions in December, 2002: A comparison of the statements reveals troubling discrepancies. The probable result is intellectual, physical, and emotional incapacity, if not death. Watch trailers & learn more. Within the North Woods, between 105th and 102nd streets, they were reported as attacking several bicyclists, hurling rocks at a cab, and attacking a pedestrian, whom they robbed of his food and beer, and left unconscious. A wheeled ride with no brakes that shot down a concrete-and-fiberglass track. "[24], As identified by the Morgenthau report and The New York Times in a 2002 review of the case, several acts of violence were perpetrated that night by a group of more than 30 teenagers. I had heard about the Central Park Five and the basics of what had happened but didn’t know the full details. 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[9] New York Governor Mario Cuomo told the New York Post: "This is the ultimate shriek of alarm. [86][87] Reyes was then working at an East Harlem convenience store on Third Avenue and 102nd Street, and living in a van on the street. [8] After the verdict, Wise shouted at the prosecutor: "You're going to pay for this. He served 13 years and 8 months in multiple state prisons: Rikers' Island Prison in 1990, Attica Correctional Facility in 1991, Wende State Penitentiary in 1993 and Auburn State Correctional Facility in 2001. It was 18" wide. [142] In some cases, this requirement is limited to certain types of crimes. The city did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement. [150] The incident received little media coverage in May 1989, when the focus was on the Central Park case. These were:[6][8]. 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