Donald Trump took out full-page ads in 3 NYC papers, calling for the reinstatement of the death

[no_hypocrisy]

penalty for teens arrested for a terrible crime. They were later cleared of any responsibility. If the Legislature had been persuaded by Trump, they could be dead today as well as exonerated.

Fear that ghetto crime could spoil this sanctuary struck a powerful chord, especially among the rich and the elected. Donald Trump, the real-estate magnate, would spend $85,000 on full-page ads calling for the death penalty in the jogger case: “They should be forced to suffer . . . ,” Trump opined. “I want them to be afraid.”
http://www.alternet.org/media/14958?page=entire


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Men cleared in Central Park jogger case want settlement

Some of the men imprisoned and then later cleared in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park are calling on New York City to offer them a settlement.

The five imprisoned following the 1989 attack have each sued the city for $50 million. Two joined their lawyers today, on the 22nd anniversary of the attack, to ask for a speedy resolution.

The city Law Department didn't immediately comment.

Raymond Santana says that spending much of his teens and twenties in prison has left him behind as he's tried to build a normal life. He says he has no steady work.

The five were cleared in 2003. Another man, who was already jailed for other crimes, confessed to the attack. DNA evidence supported his claim.

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/men_cleared_in_central_park_jo.html

[zbdent]

1. bet he'd change his mind if he was wrongfully accused of committing a murder

and was railroaded into a "confession" and was sentenced to death ...

of course, when you're white and have $$$ ... (even if it's borrowed from friends - socialism!!!)