“This is a controversial and important book, presenting a
powerful argument that the minority youths who are convicted of
raping and nearly murdering “the Central Park Jogger” were innocent
of that crime though not necessarily of other violent crimes
committed in Central Park that night.It demonstrates that
our justice system is far from full proof even in the face of
alleged confession, eyewitness and forensic evidence. Were these
false convictions based on understandable mistakes? Or we
內容簡介：
A riveting, in-depth account of one of New York City’s most
notorious crimes.
On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Central
Park, her skull so badly smashed that nearly 80 percent of her
blood has spilled onto the ground. Within days, five black and
Latino teenagers confess to her rape and beating. In a city where
urban crime is at a high and violence is frequent, the ensuing
media frenzy and hysterical public reaction is extraordinary. The
young men are tried as adults and convicted of rape, despite the
fact that the teens quickly recant their inconsistent and
inaccurate confessions and that no DNA tests or eyewitness accounts
tie any of them to the victim. They serve their complete sentences
before another man, serial rapist Matias Reyes, confesses to the
crime and is connected to it by DNA testing.
Intertwining the stories of these five young men, the police
officers, the district attorneys, the victim, and Matias Reyes,
Sarah Burns unravels the forces that made both the crime and its
prosecution possible. Most dramatically, she gives us a portrait of
a city already beset by violence and deepening rifts between races
and classes, whose law enforcement, government, social
institutions, and media were undermining the very rights of the
individuals they were designed to safeguard and protect.
關於作者：
Sarah Burns graduated from Yale University in
2004 with a degree in American studies and went on to work for
Moore Goodman, a small civil rights law firm based in New
York. She is now producing a documentary film with Ken Burns based
on this book. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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