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N.Y. judge overturns conviction of innocent man who spent 33 years in prison

A Long Island judge on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man who spent 33 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Keith Bush was 17 and at a house party when police arrested him in the killing of 14-year-old Sherese Watson, who was found strangled and stabbed near the house. Though he […]

CENTRAL FIVE PARK – KOREY WISE FULL VIDEO CONFESSION

The reason Korey’s statement is so long is due to the fact that it was done in two parts, as allegedly he approached the investigator saying he wanted to change his original story… On the night of April 19, 1989, in Central Park, NY, a jogger was brutally raped and beaten. The teens were interrogated […]

The Central Park Five: A cautionary tale of injustice

Wrongly convicted as teenagers for a crime that shocked New York City, the five men who came to be known as the “Central Park Five,” who were exonerated by a jailhouse confession and DNA tests, are the subjects of a new Netflix miniseries. Correspondent Maurice DuBois talks with Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey […]

Central Park Five and the impact on American law

The new Netflix series “When They See Us” is reigniting debate over how police treated the Central Park Five during the investigation into the brutal attack on a female jogger in 1989. Attorney Paul Martin joined CBSN to explain what he thought of the original case and why the system is still rigged against black […]