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June 20, 2014

New York City to Pay $40 Million to Wrongly Jailed Central Park Five 
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The City of New York has reportedly agreed to pay $40 million to five
men wrongfully convicted of raping a female jogger in Central Park 25
years ago. The five black and Latino men were convicted as teenagers.
Media coverage at the time portrayed them as guilty and used racially
coded terms to describe them. But their convictions were vacated in 2002
when the real rapist came forward and confessed, after the five had
already served jail terms of up to 13 years. We'll have more on the
Central Park Five settlement after headlines.

 

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