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Loading... The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wildingby Sarah Burns, Ken Burns, David McMahon
  
None No current Talk conversations about this book.  ShanLand | Feb 28, 2022 |  Excruciating amount of detail about a black-on-white crime that gained attention largely because of its location in Central Park. The young men were indeed railroaded into making false confessions and served their sentence before the true killer was found thru DNA evidence. Unfortunately, as a lawyer, much of what's described is only too familiar. I simply couldn't maintain the same sense of outrage as the author or as the leader of the book discussion. (  ) abycats | May 11, 2018 | Many of us remember the horrible rape of the central park jogger in 1989, and the tabloid-like headlines that accompanied the case. What didn’t make the headlines was the fact that the five boys (four under 16) that were tried and convicted of the heinous crime were all exonerated of that crime in 2003. Once the boys were in the system though, the system decided convict them no matter what the facts bore out. Sara Burns does justice to their cases, and reminds us all that our race and class is oft times used against us in a court of law. (  ) hayduke | Apr 3, 2013 | This book, by the daughter of PBS award winner Ken Burns, is the retelling of the wrongful conviction of 5 New York City boys in the brutal assault of a woman jogger in 1989. Sarah Burns does a good job of simply analyzing the information and putting it in the context of New York City in a very high-crime era. She looks at the crime through the eyes of racism and it is compelling. She is in the process of making a documentary on the same subject and since she is collaborating with her parents, I imagine it will be very high quality. (  ) dablackwood | Dec 5, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
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An in-depth account of one of New York City's most notorious crimes. On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Central Park, her skull badly smashed. Within days, five black and Latino teenagers confess to her rape and beating. The ensuing media frenzy and hysterical public reaction is extraordinary. The young men are tried and convicted as adults, despite the fact that the teens quickly recant their inconsistent and inaccurate confessions and that no tests or eyewitness accounts tie any of them to the victim. They serve their complete sentences before another man, serial rapist Matias Reyes, confesses to the crime and is connected to it by DNA testing. Intertwining the stories of these five young men, the police officers, the district attorneys, the victim, and Reyes, author Burns unravels the forces that made both the crime and its prosecution possible.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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