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The Central Park Five case is officially closed.
A federal court judge on Friday signed off on the wrongfully-convicted quintet's $41 million settlement with the city, court records show.
The deal "is an act of justice for those five men that is long overdue," Mayor de Blasio said in a statement after the filing...
The five black and Latino men were teens when they....were coerced into confessing... [They] had all served their sentences when career criminal Matias Reyes confessed to the crime. His story was backed up by DNA evidence, and a judge vacated their convictions with the blessing of the Manhattan District Attorney's office...
~Daily News
The miniseries about their lives was created by Ava DuVernay.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7137906/
