2014: False Confessions: The True Story
Showing of The Central Park Five
Location
Millhiser Moot Court Room
Start Date
30-1-2014 7:00 PM
Description
Showing of the Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns PBS documentary The Central Park Five, which tells the story of how five young men came to be charged with one of the most horrific and notorious crimes in New York City history – the brutal beating and rape of a young woman jogger in Central Park. All confessed. All were convicted. All spent many years in prison until the actual perpetrator confessed. All were exonerated.
One of those men, Raymond Santana, along with Professor Steven Drizin, a leading expert in the field of false confessions, will share thoughts about the experience after the showing.
Showing of The Central Park Five
Millhiser Moot Court Room
Showing of the Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns PBS documentary The Central Park Five, which tells the story of how five young men came to be charged with one of the most horrific and notorious crimes in New York City history – the brutal beating and rape of a young woman jogger in Central Park. All confessed. All were convicted. All spent many years in prison until the actual perpetrator confessed. All were exonerated.
One of those men, Raymond Santana, along with Professor Steven Drizin, a leading expert in the field of false confessions, will share thoughts about the experience after the showing.