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October 13, 2002

I've been intentionally bad at lying

Wouldn't call it a bad habit, exactly. More like a nervous laugh.

Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Report: Lawyer Claims New Evidence

The lawyer for three of the five teen-agers convicted in the 1989 attack on a female jogger in Central Park said all the defendants should be exonerated, citing new evidence uncovered in the case, The New York Times reported Sunday.

``I don't want anyone to be confused about this,'' attorney Michael Warren said. ``It's not on the basis of legal error, it's on the basis of new evidence, which, if it had existed at the time of the trial, the outcome would be different.''

Prosecutors began reinvestigating the case in January after Matias Reyes said he acted alone in raping and beating a 28-year-old investment banker who was left for dead in the park April 19, 1989. DNA found on the jogger has linked Reyes to the attack. No biological evidence from the five people convicted of the crime has been found.

There may be a longer version of this AP article which includes the names of the teen-agers. Or, since they're now potentially innocent and were juveniles when the crime took place, their names are. . . does the US media not print the names of juvenile suspects? Or is that a British thing?

No matter. All names are given in an article at Newsday:

In the end, five teenagers were convicted in one of the city’s most shocking cases largely on the basis of their own admissions to police, especially the videotaped statements made by four of them.

[. . .] In the chilling videotapes, reviewed by Newsday, each of the four teens says he was present at the brutal assault but did not rape the jogger. Three of them — Antron McCray, Raymond Santana and Kharey Wise — describe participating in some way — holding her down, fondling her legs or her breast, kicking her. The fourth, Kevin Richardson, says he only tried to stop the attack. They name others, including in some cases each other, as having raped or beaten her.

The fifth teenager convicted — Yusef Salaam — did not give a videotaped or signed statement, but allegedly told a detective that he hit the jogger with a pipe and fondled her breasts.

That article has transcripts.

They also have the videos.

The confessions by four convicted in the Central Park jogger case show discrepancies in who initiated the attacks, what types of weapons were used and in the unfolding events.

These excerpts from the videotaped confessions obtained by the district attorney's office from Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Kharey Wise begin when they first see the jogger and continue through the initial attack.

WARNING: Many of the descriptions are graphic and violent. Much of the sexually explicit part of the confession of each has been edited out of these excerpts.

I tried watching one.

Perhaps he wasn't being intentionally bad.

Posted by Aaron at October 13, 2002 06:53 AM

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