Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice
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3 of the Central Park Five Finally Celebrate Their High School Graduation, Receive Honorary Diplomas
It’s been decades in the making, but on Monday three of the Central Park Five finally got the opportunity to celebrate their high school graduation and received honorary degrees after they were robbed of their futures when they were wrongly imprisoned and later wrongly convicted for the 1989 rape of a woman who was jogging…
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Donald Trump Still Believes Central Park Five Are Guilty
Donald Trump continues to prove what a misguided and miserable president he would make after insisting that the Central Park Five were guilty, despite their being exonerated by DNA in New York City’s horrific 1989 Central Park jogger rape case. “They admitted they were guilty,” Trump said to CNN in a statement. “The police doing…
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Central Park Five’s Korey Wise Donates $190,000 to University of Colo.’s Innocence Project
Korey Wise, one of the Central Park Five, is now giving back, hoping to help wrongly convicted inmates, by donating $190,000 to the University of Colorado’s Innocence Project, securing for the program a new lease on life, the Denver Post reports. The program, which is operated out of the university’s law school, has been renamed…