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Central Park Five
  • Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Caban, far right, and New York Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, third from left, join a coalition of civil rights activists at a press conference, calling for an investigation of former Assistant District Attorney Linda Fairstein, Tuesday June 11, 2019, in New York. The group is "demanding" that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance appoint an independent investigation to review Fairstein's roll in the rape conviction of the "Central Five," who were all exonerated by DNA evidence-- supporting their claim of false conviction. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
  • Honoree Yusef Salaam sheds a tear as he speaks to the audience at the ACLU SoCal's 25th Annual Luncheon at the JW Marriott at LA Live, Friday, June 7, 2019, in Los Angeles. Salaam was one of five Harlem teenagers who were wrongly convicted of assaulting and raping a female jogger in New York City's Central Park in 1989. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
  • Honoree Yusef Salaam, one of five Harlem teenagers who was wrongly convicted of assaulting and raping a female jogger in New York City's Central Park in 1989, addresses the audience at the ACLU SoCal's 25th Annual Luncheon at the JW Marriott at LA Live, Friday, June 7, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
  • FILE- In this May 20, 2019 file photo, Director Ava DuVernay, center, with the Central Park 5: Raymond Santana, from left, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Anthony McCray and Yuesf Salaam, attend the world premiere of "When They See Us," at the Apollo Theater in New York. A former prosecutor in the Central Park Five case has resigned from at least two nonprofit boards as backlash intensified following the release of the Netflix series "When They See Us," a miniseries that dramatizes the events surrounding the trial. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP)
  • FILE- In this May 20, 2019 file photo, director Ava DuVernay attends the world premiere of her film "When They See Us," at the Apollo in New York. Linda Fairstein, a former prosecutor in the Central Park Five case, has resigned from at least two nonprofit boards as backlash intensified following the release of the Netflix miniseries that dramatizes the events surrounding the trial. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP, File)
  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 07: Honoree Yusef Salaam (R) hugs actor Michael B. Jordan at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California's 25th annual awards luncheon on June 7, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Salaam was one of the five teenagers wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger in New York's Central Park in 1989. The five were dubbed 'The Central Park Five' at the time and have since been released and completely exonerated. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
  • NEW YORK, NY - MAY 20: (L-R) Kevin Richardson, Antron Mccray, Raymond Santana Jr., Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam, collectively known as the "Central Park Five", attend the World Premiere of Netflix's "When They See Us" at the Apollo Theater on May 20, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

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