Elizabeth Lederer informed Columbia Law School on Wednesday that she would not seek reappointment as a part-time lecturer due to the negative publicity generated by 'When They See Us.'
Lederer was the lead prosecutor in the case in which five teenagers were wrongfully convicted in the 1989 rape and beating of a woman jogging in Central Park.
The law school dean says in a letter the miniseries "reignited a painful — and vital — national conversation about race, identity, and criminal justice."
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