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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 11:20 PM Jul 2018

NYC releases documents connected to Central Park 5 case

Source: Associated Press


Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
Updated 8:33 pm CDT, Friday, July 20, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for five men wrongly convicted in the vicious 1989 rape of a Central Park jogger said Friday that the release of investigative records leaves them "reliving the horror" of their experiences.

"The stigma that they were these horrible animals engaged in wilding has followed them through their life," said Jonathan Moore, one of several attorneys who secured a $41 million settlement in 2014 on their behalf.

Moore said he'd spoken Friday with the men after the city released thousands of pages of investigative documents Thursday ranging from witness interviews to scraps of scribbled notes.

"For them, it's more reliving the horror of what they experienced rather than being happy it all came out," he said. "They get emotional about what happened and are affected to this day but they don't do it with bitterness and hate."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/NYC-releases-documents-connected-to-Central-Park-13091020.php

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NYC releases documents connected to Central Park 5 case (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2018 OP
Trump racistly called for the 5 to be executed and kept up after they were exonerated Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #1
They would be dead and buried (executed) if that Orange Basturd had had is way..... lastlib Jul 2018 #2

lastlib

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2. They would be dead and buried (executed) if that Orange Basturd had had is way.....
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 11:26 PM
Jul 2018
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