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Jul 5, 2023 · DNA evidence and a confession ultimately linked a serial rapist and murderer to the attack, but he wasn’t prosecuted because too much time had passed. Their convictions were vacated in 2002 and the city ultimately agreed in a legal settlement to pay the exonerated men a combined $41 million.
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Police picked up the five teenagers after a string of violent incidents were reported in Central Park on April 19, 1989. Salaam said they were questioned without legal representation, and were coerced by police into making confessions. Those statements were later ruled admissible in court. During the high-profile trials, Salaam said that he and his...
Entering prison, Salaam worried he wouldn't make it out again. "We were told that going to prison for rape was the worst crime that you can go to prison for ... and inmates have their own way of dealing with that kind of atrocity," said Salaam. But on the inside, he said he felt protected by his faith, and his resolve for the future. "If you let th...
In prison, Salaam said he was always looking over his shoulder, and had to have eyes in the back of his head. Leaving that behind, and "turning off all of the things that you turned on as a part of your survival," has been a challenge, he said. But he feels he's adjusted well, and said that some of those habits, like always being ready in case thin...
In 1990, Yusef Salaam — a member of the Exonerated Five — was wrongly convicted of a rape and assault he did not commit in New York.
The convictions against McCray, Richardson, Salaam, Santana, and Wise were vacated in 2002; Lopez's convictions were vacated in July 2022. From the outset the case was a topic of national interest. Initially, it fueled public discourse about New York City's perceived lawlessness, criminal behavior by youths, and violence toward women.
May 24, 2019 · Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam and Kevin Richardson, three of the five men wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Central Park in 1989, speak at a press conference, June 27, 2014, in New York City.
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May 23, 2019 · After 10 days of deliberations, Salaam, Santana and McCray, all 16 years old at the time, were convicted of rape, assault and robbery in the attack on Meili.
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Nov 8, 2023 · Yusef Salaam was wrongfully convicted of the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park, but he isn’t letting what happened make him bitter. Salaam told CBC two years ago that he has...
