DNA Clears Five Convicted Men of 1989 Rape

Anonymous User writes "CourtTV has been closely following new DNA evidence which has apparently cleared five men who were convicted of raping a Central Park jogger in 1989. The gruesome crime (the jogger was severely beaten and her eyes were destroyed) was originally attributed to five youths. Four of them have already served complete sentences for it. DNA evidence has now exonerated those five after another convicted rapist and murderer confessed to the Central Park crime and provided his DNA as evidence. The story is here. What is most interesting is that the five youths eventually confessed to the crime themselves. They now say their confessions were coerced."

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