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Name: The Central Park Five
Author: Sarah Burns

Sarah Burns’ investigation of the 1989 Central Park jogger case exposes how racial and socio‑economic divisions in New York City fueled a rush of media sensationalism and a hasty trial that led to the wrongful conviction of five black and Latino teenagers. The book details their imprisonment, the later confession and DNA identification of serial rapist Matias Reyes, and the subsequent overturning of the convictions. By interweaving the perspectives of the young men, law enforcement officials, prosecutors, the victim, and Reyes himself, Burns illuminates the institutional failures that allowed both the crime and its prosecution to occur.

First publish date: 2012

Genre: Crime Fiction/Criminal Underworld

Authors: Sarah Burns

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