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Read their confessions.

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Their confessions point to them being innocent.

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Yes or no answer, do you still believe these 5 teenagers raped this woman?

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Their confessions bear all the classic hallmarks of being given under duress.

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No they were not cleared, the conviction was vacated, that should have resulted in a new trial. And would have if not for political reasons.

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Oh please, some of them were blurting out confessions on the way downtown, one of the guys told his sister he was involved.

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This in no ways contradicts my statement.

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Proof of this please.

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Of what? That he told his sister he was there? Oh oops, it was his friend, not his sister.

from Central Park jogger case - Wikipedia

Korey Wise, 16 years old at the time of the crime, was acquitted of rape and attempted murder.[56] While incarcerated in the Rikers Island adult jail before the trial, Korey Wise allegedly told Melody Jackson, the older sister of a friend of his, that he had restrained and fondled the jogger. Jackson so testified at his trial.[

Did she coerce him too?

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you want me to post the actual texts? which have been in the news (real news not lefty idiot narrative news) for like a year or more?

after you all agree to complain to me it’s off topic?

you lose

goodnight

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There are a couple of issues with your theory.

  1. The recommendation to vacate the conviction came from the same DA who prosecuted them in the first place.

  2. They could not have been tried again, because by the time the conviction was vacated, the statute of limitations was well-passed.

  3. At the time their convictions were vacated, all of them had completed their sentences.

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  1. DNA evidence was extracted from semen deposited on the jogger’s sock, found near her at the crime scene. It did not match any of the defendants, or any other known sample.* The same was true of DNA evidence extracted from a cervical swab; it did not match the defendants or any other known sample. Expert testimony at trial, however, established that the DNA from both the victim and the sock appeared to have come from the same source. Testimony also established that the DNA was not a mixture; it was from a single source, meaning that only one individual had ejaculated. A pubic hair found on the sock was also examined microscopically. It was likewise found to be inconsistent with the defendants and every other known source. The known samples included samples from all of the individuals whom the defendants had specifically named as rapists.
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They also claimed Richardson was the rapist and he was not.

They also had wildly inconsistent stories in their confessions.

They also made up things because they thought they were helping their buddies out.

They also did not know things about the crime scene people who were there would have known.

Such inconsistencies are consistent with people whose confessions were obtained under duress.

And finally- they’re crooks, right? We can’t trust anything crooks say…that’s why we can’t trust Matias Reyes, remember?

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They were thugs.

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And? What does semen have to do with people who participated in the attack by physically hitting her or holding her down, or touching her sexually?

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Nooooooo

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Anywhere from the victim on the kids or the kids on the victim.

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To be fair the one thing his dreck of a reference got right is that DNA science was new in 1989. The police likely would not have looked for it extensively.

But there was zero physical evidence putting the five at the crime scene and their “confessions” revealed they likely weren’t at the crime scene.

The case mostly hinged on tenuous physical evidence, including a hair in Richardson’s underwear the prosecution said “closely matched” Meili’s pubic hair…later found to be completely false. The jurors said this evidence swayed them…to their credit, they discounted the “confessions”.

It was a thin reed of a case…but the city wanted justice.

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Crooks…thugs… drugs… rapists…and none, I suppose, were good people…

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That’s not true.

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Yes- it is.

DId you live there? Were you there?

Or, as usual, are you getting your news from your “approved sources”?