The Central Park Five, now known as the “Exonerated Five,” went on to win a $40 million settlement from New York.
NEW YORK — A co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned Monday.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg told a judge Monday that a review of the case found that Lopez had pleaded guilty involuntarily “in the face of false statements” and under “immense external pressure.” He served more than three years behind bars before being released in the early 1990s.“Mr. Lopez is looking for privacy at this time,” said his lawyer, Eric Shapiro Renfroe.
Her assault happened on a night when several other people had been attacked in the park by groups of youths.convictions were thrown out in 2002
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