One spring night, twenty years ago two tragedies occurred in Central Park. Trisha Meili, a white 28-year-old woman out for an evening jog, was raped, brutally beaten and left for dead. And five African American and Latino youths (aged 14 to 16) were picked up by the police, arrested and, later, wrongfully convicted for a crime they did not commit.
Most New Yorkers remember Meili, who was known for 14 years as the Central Park Jogger. She was, the media...
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