Ken Burns' The Central Park Five (PBS) -- 4/16/13
04-15-13 | 03:44 PM
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Ken Burns' The Central Park Five (PBS) -- 4/16/13
Tuesday night, 9-11p on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. The film chronicles The Central Park Jogger case, for the first time from the perspective of these five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.
04-15-13 | 04:03 PM
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Thanks
04-15-13 | 04:06 PM
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out.
04-16-13 | 07:51 AM
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Its a film that runs 2 hours. I would pad the DVR just in case as the runtime on imdb lists 119 mins.
The reviews have been excellent.
The reviews have been excellent.
04-18-13 | 08:05 AM
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That was truly sad. This is the biggest flaw in the criminal justice system -- it's a detective's job (as he or she sees it) to get confessions rather than the truth and it's a prosecutors job to get convictions rather than justice. When you have strong immunity bars (particularly for prosecutors) against civil actions for mistakes (and even more egregious conduct), that's what you get. And it also doesn't help when convictions and being "tough on crime" are measurements the public uses.
And what's even worse is that not one of those cops or prosecutors or even jurors (except for the one who expressed doubt and eventually gave in) presumably were willing to be interviewed to say they made a mistake.
And what's even worse is that not one of those cops or prosecutors or even jurors (except for the one who expressed doubt and eventually gave in) presumably were willing to be interviewed to say they made a mistake.
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04-18-13 | 08:42 AM
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Yeah I also saw this last night.
Felt bad for those guys. Their lives were ruined by this incident. It was interesting at the end how Raymond Santana was saying where does he go from here. His childhood is gone, he's in his late 30's now and there really isn't any direction for his life to take now.
It sucked to see when their convictions were overturned in 2002, it was really just an afterthought. These guys will always have that 7-8 year gap in their lives that will hinder their futures.
Felt bad for those guys. Their lives were ruined by this incident. It was interesting at the end how Raymond Santana was saying where does he go from here. His childhood is gone, he's in his late 30's now and there really isn't any direction for his life to take now.
It sucked to see when their convictions were overturned in 2002, it was really just an afterthought. These guys will always have that 7-8 year gap in their lives that will hinder their futures.
04-18-13 | 09:14 AM
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Very similar to the West Memphis 3
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Epilogue....the CP5 got a $40M settlement from the city. This represents $1M per year in jail each.
