Wrongful Conviction

law

The Central Park Five — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise — were wrongfully convicted in 1990 for the assault and rape of Trisha...

law

The Central Park jogger case refers to the assault of Trisha Meili and the subsequent criminal convictions of five adolescents in 1990, followed by their exoneration in 2002. Th...

Crime & Justice

The yogurt shop murders documentary (2025) examines the 1993 Austin, Texas killings of four employees at a frozen yogurt store. The case led to convictions later vacated because...

case studies

The Central Park Five case refers to the 1989 investigation and subsequent prosecution of five teenagers wrongfully convicted of the assault and rape of a jogger in Central Park...

Celebrity Profiles

Seymour and Arlene Tankleff are the parents at the center of a high-profile wrongful conviction case in New York. In 1989, Seymour Tankleff was convicted of murdering his father...

status

Korey Wise served approximately 12 years in prison (1990 to 2002) for convictions later vacated after exoneration in the Central Park Five case. He was released in 2002 when the...

reference

The phrase Central Park 5 usually refers to the five teenagers—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise—who were wrongfully convicted i...

people profiles

Russ and Betsy Faria are widely discussed as a married couple who became public figures after Russ Faria was wrongfully convicted of murder and later exonerated. This evergreen...

legal

The prosecutor in the 1989 Central Park Five case was Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who authorized felony charges against five teenagers—Antron McCray, Kevin...

explainer

In early 2018, the documentary American Nightmare brought widespread attention to a high-profile case involving wrongful conviction, prosecutorial misconduct, and law enforcemen...