The men’s convictions were thrown out in 2002 after a career criminal confessed to the attack and DNA evidence supported the confession.
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New York City will pay $40 million to the Central Park 5, a group of men who were wrongly convicted of raping a female jogger in 1989. So reports the New York Post.
The men’s convictions were thrown out in 2002 after a career criminal confessed to the attack and DNA evidence supported the confession.