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September 05, 2002
I expect Trump to buy another ad
From the Guardian, since at least they have a different set of biases from the US media:
Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Lawyer Seeks Conviction OverturnNEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer for three young men convicted in the notorious rape of a Central Park jogger more than a decade ago said he will seek to overturn their guilty verdicts.
The lawyer, Michael Warren, is expected to argue at a hearing on Monday that new DNA evidence and a confession by another man could exonerate the three, who have served their sentences in the 1989 attack that left a young investment banker near death.
Warren said in a motion filed in state court last week that no physical evidence linked his clients to the crime.
In the motion, first reported in Wednesday in the Daily News, Warren said [Matias Reyes,] a 31-year-old convicted murderer and rapist confessed to stalking and raping the woman as she ran across Central Park.
Reyes' name, not mentioned in the Guardian, appears in the CBS News/AP story on this. Both maintain the polite fiction about not knowing who Patricia Meili is, but whatever.
The CBS story also notes:
The New York Daily News reported that lab tests have shown that genetic material in the rape matches Reyes' DNA.In a jailhouse confession, Reyes claimed that he alone stalked and raped the jogger, raising questions about the guilt of five Harlem teens who were convicted of assaulting her.
[. . . Attorney Michael] Warren said in a motion filed in Manhattan State Supreme Court last week that no physical evidence linked his clients to the crime and that confessions they made to police were obtained through "the most abhorrent form of physical duress."
[. . .] The News also reported Thursday that the victim, who has remained anonymous all these years, will identify herself in a memoir to be published next spring by Charles Scribner's Sons.
You can see the Daily News story itself too, if you're interested. It tosses out this little fact, which I hadn't noticed in the previous two articles:
Reyes cannot be prosecuted for the attack because the statute of limitations has expired.
Which is fine. The others can't get back the years they spent in prison for a crime they, apparently, did not commit. Everybody wins.
Posted by Aaron at September 5, 2002 02:44 PM
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