NEW YORK – A federal judge has signed off on New York City’s $41 million settlement with the five men who were wrongly convicted in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called the settlement approved Friday an “act of justice” that’s “long overdue.”
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The five black and Hispanic defendants were convicted as teenagers in the attack on a white woman.
They served six to 13 years in prison before their convictions were thrown out in 2002 because of evidence connecting someone else to the attack.
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The victim was found with more than 75 per cent of her blood drained from her body and her skull smashed. She was in a coma for 12 days, suffered permanent damage and remembers nothing about the attack.
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