This was one of many cases that started me to rethink about the death penalty. And of course more and more DNA evidence that started coming in clearing people of crimes.
The men were later exonerated in 2002, when another man confessed to the crime and DNA backed up his confession. Trump wrote an op-ed in the New York Daily News in 2014, calling New York Cityâs $41 million settlement with the five men "a disgrace.â
â â â â â â â â â they werenât exonerated, they werenât convicted of penetration nor do you have to penetrate a woman to take part in her rape.
Multiple videotaped confessions of âthe Fiveâ; the presence of semen, blood, and hair on all of the suspects; a scratch on Kevin Richardsonâs neck that, in the company of his father, he admitted he received by Meili; and several witness accounts confirmed for the police that the vermin who Ken Burns would years later make into martyrs were as guilty as sin itself of initiating and facilitating an attack against Trisha Meili that nearly cost the poor woman her life.