[73], Raymond Santana had been out of prison for six months before he was found guilty of possessing of crack cocaine in 1998 and reincarcerated for a term of 3.5 to 7 years. [35] Classified as an adult at 16, Korey Wise was separated from the others from the first and held in an adult jail at Rikers Island until trial. Also retired New York City detective Edward Conlon, who had been involved with the case, in an article published in October 2014 in The Daily Beast, quoted incriminatory statements allegedly made by some of the youths after they had been taken into custody by police in April 1989. The accounts given by the five defendants differed from one another on the specific details of virtually every major aspect of the crime—who initiated the attack, who knocked the victim down, who undressed her, who struck her, who held her, who raped her, what weapons were used in the course of the assault, and when in the sequence of events the attack took place. [76] Reyes was believed to have raped another woman in the same area of the park during the day on April 17, two days before the attack on Meili. He was released and exonerated in 2002. After the exonerations, it became a high-profile example of racial profiling, discrimination, and inequality in the media and legal system. Guilty; sentences ranged from 5–10 years for four juveniles, and 5–15 years for a 16-year-old who was classified as an adult because of the violent nature of the crime. [7], Based on interviews and other evidence, the team believed that Reyes had acted alone: The rape appeared to have taken place in the North Woods area after the main body of the thirty teenagers had moved well to the south, and the timeline reconstruction of events made it unlikely that he was joined by any of the defendants. But this policy was ignored when the names of the arrested juveniles were released to the press before any of them had been formally arraigned or indicted. At a press conference in 2014, de Blasio made a public statement about the settlements. [152], The New York Times continued to report on the case, and followed up on prosecution of suspects. The 22-year-old visitor died from devastating injuries after being pounced on by a lioness named Ndira while it was out walking with expert and social media star Kevin Richardson in the Dinokeng Game Reserve. Personal Injury and Wrongful Death; All Practice Areas; Office Locations; News; Contact Us; Kevin A. Richardson admin 2019-07-20T12:20:10+00:00 Kevin A. Richardson. Raymond Santana served 6 years and 8 months in juvenile detention from 1990 to 1996 and was released on parole. The DA's office questioned the veracity of the confessions, pointing to the many inconsistencies between them and their lack of correspondence to established facts. His pictures and videos of his intimate relationship with the beasts has won him a massive worldwide following. Among them were four African American and two Hispanic American teenagers who were indicted on May 10 on charges of assault, robbery, riot, rape, sexual abuse, and the attempted murders of Meili and an unrelated man, John Loughlin. What really occurred that April night in Central Park involved an anarchistic gathering of criminal mischief and chaos by about 30 teenagers. Many consider the interrogation techniques to have been coercive and they have been subject to wide criticism. Detectives at the precinct did question Kevin Richardson about a scratch they noticed on his face near his left eye. The jogger was not identified for about 24 hours, and it took days for the police to retrace her movements of that night. Subsequently, known as the Central Park Five, they received sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years. After agreeing to the plea deal, Judge Galligan allowed Lopez to remain free on $25,000 bail until sentencing. Each of the youths pleaded "Not guilty." [58], Analysis indicated that none of the suspects' DNA matched either of the two DNA samples collected from the crime scene (from the jogger's cervix and running sock), but results were reported as "inconclusive" by the police. 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They renamed the project in his honor as the Korey Wise Innocence Project. [16][17][18][19] Her skull had been fractured so badly that her left eye was dislodged from its socket, which in turn was fractured in 21 places, and she suffered as well from facial fractures. Richardson initially blamed the scratch on Officer Eric Reynolds' partner, Officer Powers. Kevin Richardson served 7 years in juvenile detention from 1990 to 1997 and was released on parole. In 1998, he violated his parole and was sentenced to 3½–7 years' prison on drug charges. [23], At a time of concern about crime in general in the city, which was suffering high rates of assaults, rapes, and homicides, these attacks provoked great outrage, particularly the brutal rape of the female jogger. Each of the teenagers had his own defense counsel. [148], Korey Wise (who changed his first name from Kharey after being released from prison) still lives in New York City, where he works as a speaker and justice reform activist. [73] He serves as a criminal justice advocate with the Innocence Project and spoke in New York to audiences with Richardson and Salaam to advocate passage of the New York State justice reform law that passed in 2017. On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump, then a real estate magnate, called for the return of the death penalty for murder in full-page advertisements published in all four of the city's major newspapers. The prosecutor planned to try the defendants in two groups and then scheduled the sixth defendant to be tried last. [1], After the major media's decisions to print the names, photos, and addresses of the juvenile suspects, they and their families received serious threats. "[138][139][140], Because of the great publicity surrounding the case, the exoneration of the Central Park Five highlighted the issue of false confession. [8], Korey Wise, 16 years old at the time of the crime, was acquitted of rape and attempted murder. [8][52][59], In the first trial, which began June 25 and ended on August 18, 1990, defendants Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Raymond Santana were tried. Nick Dollman, spokesman for the paramedics, described the victim's injuries as 'very severe'. ... and suffered an injury in between the Auburn and Nicholls games after being "stepped on" in practice. She suffered severe hypothermia, severe brain damage, severe hemorrhagic shock, loss of 75–80 percent of her blood, and internal bleeding. [73] Among their goals was required videotaping of interrogations by law enforcement; such a law was passed by the New York State legislature and went into effect on April 1, 2018. "[47] He noted, "Notwithstanding the jurors' assertions that they could be fair and impartial, some of them or their families, who naturally have influence, had to be affected by the inflammatory rhetoric in the ads. [54], Lopez was scheduled to be tried in January 1991, after the two other groups of defendants in the rape and assault case. ", After a change in City administration, with the election of Mayor Bill de Blasio (who had run on a campaign promise to resolve the matter), the city settled in 2014 with the five defendants for $41 million. 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[15][16][27], In most media accounts of the incident at that time, Meili was simply referred to as the "Central Park Jogger", but two local TV stations violated the media policy of not publicly identifying the victims of sex crimes and released her name in the days immediately following the attack. "[43] Protests were held outside Trump Tower in October 2002 with protestors chanting, "Trump is a chump! Tyrone Prescott, 17, Kelvin Furman, 22, and another young man, Darren Decotea (name corrected a few days later as Darron Decoteau),[153] 17, were apprehended within two weeks and prosecuted for the crimes. Last week, he uploaded a picture to social media of his leg boasting vivid marks from a lion's claw which had ripped the hem from his shorts after getting between two fighting males, Mr Richardson said weekly walks with the cats are 'part of their exercise and stimulation regiment' designed to relieve the boredom of living in the sanctuary's enclosures. None of the six defendants in the rape mentioned him by name in association with the rape. Richardson's defense counsel made a motion for a mistrial, because of the potential effect on the jury, but the judge rejected it. did act appropriately. Poor Bongani had an unknown accident where his tooth was hanging from his jaw! In addition, his DNA matched the DNA evidence at the scene, confirming that he was the sole source of the semen found in and on the victim "to a factor of one in 6,000,000,000 people". [56] In one of the pre-trial hearings, on February 23, 1990, Galligan ruled that he would accept the videotaped confessions and Salaam's unsigned statement as prosecution evidence at trial, despite defense counsel's objections. Since 1986 judges were generally assigned by lottery,[55] but the court administrator assigned him to this case. [7], In 2001 Reyes met Wise when they were held at the Auburn Correctional Facility in upstate New York. [9] New York Governor Mario Cuomo told the New York Post: "This is the ultimate shriek of alarm. The other five defendants pleaded guilty to assault before trial and received lesser sentences. Five male youths were tried in two trials for the rape and violent assault of Trisha Meili whilst she was on a evening jog (the 6th made a plea deal in 1991 for a lesser charge and had a lesser sentence). The only thing left is something like this—so you can receive some type of money so you can survive. Mr Richardson has spoken candidly in the past about the dangers of interacting with the animals, The Dinokeng Game Reserve is thought to be the only free-roaming 'big 5' residential game reserve in the world next to a residential area. In a plea deal, he pleaded guilty on October 5, 1989, to the robbery of Loughlin and was sentenced to a year in a juvenile facility. He has spoken against practices leading to false confessions and eyewitness misidentifications, which can lead to wrongful convictions. Then fourteen years old, Kevin Richardson was tried as a juvenile and convicted of attempted murder, rape, sodomy, and robbery. [34] He was sentenced in March 1991 to 1½ to 4½ years, after pleading guilty to the mugging of jogger John Loughlin. Kevin Richardson, who keeps lions at his animal sanctuary in the Dinokeng Game Reserve, … He named others of the group by first names in the group attacks on other persons but denied any knowledge of the female jogger. "[77][103] The panel was chaired by attorney Michael F. Armstrong, the former chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, which in 1972 had documented widespread corruption in the NYPD. Michael F. Armstrong, et al. '", "Victim in 'Central Park Jogger' case brings her lessons to high school", "Raped N.Y. 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[8] None of the five said that he had raped the jogger, but each confessed to having been an accomplice to the rape. The majority appellate court decision upheld his conviction, noting that Salaam had initially lied to police about his age, claiming to be 16 and backing up his claim with a forged transit pass that, falsely, indicated that he was 16. Paramedics attempted CPR, but the injuries were so severe the victim died at the scene,' he said. These were:[6][8]. He was removed temporarily from the courtroom. The city did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement. [8], Although four suspects (all except Salaam) confessed on videotape in the presence of a parent or guardian (who had generally not been present during the interrogations), each of the four retracted his statement within weeks. 'It was a deadly attack. The five other defendants, indicted for assaults of other victims, pleaded guilty to reduced charges and received less severe sentences. As a result of the severe trauma, she had no memory of the attack or any events up to an hour before the assault, nor of the six weeks following the attack. [39], The main suspects were a sub-group[citation needed] within the loose gang of 30 to 32 teenagers who had assaulted strangers in the park as part of an activity that the police said the teenagers referred to as "wilding". Under Michael Bloomberg's mayoral administration,[108] the City refused to pursue a settlement for the lawsuits based on a conclusion that the defendants had had a fair trial. Donald Trump won't leave me alone", Exclusive: Central Park Five Members Blast Trump for Insisting They're Guilty, "Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for Death Penalty Over Central Park Five", "Trump digs in on Central Park 5: 'They admitted their guilt, "The Interview: Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions? [57] He said that Salaam's statement was being admitted as evidence because Salaam had lied to police about his age and showed them false identification. Korey Wise was sentenced to 6–15 years in prison on sexual abuse, assault and riot. Here's the Real History Behind When They See Us", Cristina Costantini, "Film Gives Voice to Men Falsely Convicted in Central Park Jogger Case", "What really happened to Korey Wise in prison? Richardson, Salaam, and Santana attended classes. Because Lopez had not acknowledged participating at all in the rape in his statement to police, and prosecution witnesses had withdrawn from testifying, based on what they said was fear of self-recrimination or "fear of their own safety", according to Lederer, the prosecution's case was extremely weak. [7], The DA's recommendation to vacate the convictions was, and continues to be strongly opposed by lead detectives on the case and other members of the police department. As Morgenthau recommended, Tejada's order vacated the convictions for all the crimes of which the defendants had been convicted. [8] Each youth said that he had only helped restrain the jogger, or touched her, while one or more others had raped her. [73], Kevin Richardson is married and lives with his family in New Jersey. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes.

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