The five men whose convictions in the brutal 1989 beating and rape of a female jogger in Central Park were later overturned have agreed to a settlement of about $40 million from New York City to resolve a bitterly fought civil rights lawsuit over their arrests and imprisonment for a sensational crime they did not commit.
In December 2002, a State Supreme Court judge vacated the men’s convictions after an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, found that DNA and other evidence showed that the jogger had been beaten and raped not by any of those convicted, but by only one man: Matias Reyes, a convicted rapist and murderer, who had confessed to the attack.
The proposed settlement averages roughly $1 million for each year of imprisonment for the men. That amount would suggest that the city was poised to pay one of the men, Kharey Wise, who spent about 13 years in prison, more than it has in any wrongful conviction case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/n...r-case-are-to-settle-suit-for-40-million.html
Justice served!
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they experienced while locked up. If I was in their shoes I'd take the money and drop my citizenship.
