United States ยท New York, New York County (Manhattan)
The Exonerated Five (Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise): wrongly convicted, exonerated
Convicted of Offences arising from the 1989 rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park, tried as teenagers.
Convicted1990
SentencePrison terms that led to between six and 13 years in custody
Exonerated2002
How the conviction was overturnedConvictions vacated after another man, a serial offender already in prison, confessed to the attack and evidence connected him to it, New York State Supreme Court, Manhattan1,2
What went wrong
- False confessions given by the teenagers during police questioning
- Evidence later connected another man to the attack
From conviction to exoneration
- The five were convicted as teenagers.1
- The convictions were overturned after Matias Reyes confessed to the attack.1,2
- A federal judge approved a 41 million US dollar settlement of their civil rights lawsuit against New York City, about 1 million dollars per year of imprisonment.1,2
Compensation
41 million US dollars in a settlement with New York City approved by a federal judge in September 2014, described as about 1 million dollars for each year the five spent in prison
Today
All five convictions were vacated in 2002, and the men settled their lawsuit with New York City in 2014.
Sources
- CBS New York, Judge OKs $41 Million Deal With 'Central Park Five' (5 September 2014)
- WNYC, Central Park Five Get $41 Million Settlement (5 September 2014)