Ken Burns at the 73rd Annual Peabody AwardsĬritic A. She had written her undergraduate thesis on the topic of racism in the media coverage of the attack and related events, which inspired development of this documentary. Sarah Burns, the daughter of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, worked for a summer as a paralegal in the office of one of the lawyers handling a lawsuit against the city on behalf of the five men who had been convicted in the case. The city settled the case for $41 million in 2014, after Bill de Blasio was elected as mayor. Ken Burns said he hoped release of the documentary would push the city to settle the case against it. In 2003, the Central Park Five, four of whom were younger than 16 and only one was 16 at the time of the crime, sued New York City for malicious prosecution, racial discrimination, and emotional distress. The state withdrew all charges against the men. Based on the newly discovered evidence and its analysis of the prosecution, the DA's office recommended that the court vacate the convictions of the five men of all charges, which it did. A 2002 investigation by the DA's office found that DNA analysis identified him as the sole contributor of the semen found in and on the rape victim, and other evidence affirmed his confession and guilt. Convicted in 1990 as a serial rapist and murderer, Reyes confessed in 2001 to the crime against the female jogger to another inmate in prison and later to authorities. He was later found to have committed a rape in the park two days earlier. The film also presents analysis to suggest that the police should have connected Matias Reyes to the case at the time that it happened. It documents the accounts of four of being coerced to confess to the rape each withdrew such confessions before trial and always maintained his innocence.
The documentary provides background, interviews, expert analysis, and details of associated facts related to the case, prosecution and the conviction of the five suspects for the rape and also on charges related to assault of a male jogger. In July 1990, during the trial of the first three of the defendants, The New York Times described the attack on the female jogger as "one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s."
She was a 28-year-old investment banker at the time. Meili was so badly beaten that she was in a coma for 12 days. The Central Park jogger case was based on the violent assault, rape, and sodomy of Trisha Meili, a female jogger, in New York City's Central Park, on April 19, 1989, as well as what were thought to be related attacks by a large group of youths on eight other persons in the park that night, including two that left victims unconscious.
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