The Central Park Five, (Paperback)

from abycats

Excruciating amount of detail about a black-on-white crime that gained attention largely because of its location in Central Park. The young men were indeed railroaded into making false confessions and served their sentence before the true killer was found thru DNA evidence. Unfortunately, as a la...

from dablackwood

This book, by the daughter of PBS award winner Ken Burns, is the retelling of the wrongful conviction of 5 New York City boys in the brutal assault of a woman jogger in 1989. Sarah Burns does a good job of simply analyzing the information and putting it in the context of New York City in a very h...