Central Park Five, The

An in-depth, eye-opening, thought-provoking, ire-producing, 2-hour documentary that uses archival film clips, still photographs, and interviews with lawyers Michael Warren and Michael Joseph, former NYC Mayors Edward I. Koch and David Dinkins, social psychologist Saul Sassin, Kevin Raymond's sister Angela Black and father Kevin Raymond Sr., former Governor Mario Cuomo, minister Rev. Calvin Butts, historian Craig Steven Wilder, and journalists Natalie Byfield, Lynnell Hancock, and Jim Dwyer to chronicle the shoddy, irresponsible investigation by New York City detectives Linda Farstein, John Hartigan, Elizabeth Lederer, Carlos Gonsalez, Humberto Arroyo, and Aaron Rosenthal of the brutal rape and near-death beating of 28-year-old Wall Street investment banker Trisha Meili on April 19, 1989, while she was jogging in Central Park and the subsequent erroneous arrests, lengthy interrogations and coerced confessions, and trials of teenagers Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise and the eventual overturning of their convictions after 18-year-old Matias Reyes was arrested on Aug. 5, 1989, for the horrendous crime.
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