Director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the events into a limited-run series for Netflix is credited with catalyzing the most recent examination of Fairstein's record.
"The campaign shouldn't have accepted this contribution and we're returning it."Fairstein has drawn renewed scrutiny for her role in the prosecution of five teenagers—four African American and one Hispanic—for the brutal rape of a Central Park jogger in 1989. The case relied in part on false confessions extracted from each of the boys during lengthy interrogation sessions without the presence of counsel.
In 2002, a New York State judge vacated the young men's convictions after a serial rapist, Matias Reyes, confessed to the crime. He had already been serving a life sentence on unrelated charges. "Ms. DuVernay's film attempts to portray me as an overzealous prosecutor and a bigot, the police as incompetent or worse, and the five suspects as innocent of all charges against them," Fairstein wrote."None of this is true."
During the de Blasio administration, the Central Park Five settled with New York City for $41 million relating to claims stemming from their wrongful convictions, although the city did not admit to misconduct.magazine all-but-rescinded its 1993 christening of Fairstein as its woman of the year. Fairstein, a novelist, was also dropped by her publisher.
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