The conviction of a co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five has been overturned. Steven Lopez had been convicted on a related charge along with five other Black and Latino teenagers in the notorious 1989 rape and assault on Central Park jogger Trisha Meili.
of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned Monday.Lopez was arrested along with five other Black and Latino teenagers in the rape and assault on Trisha Meili but reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to the lesser charge of robbing a male jogger.told a judge Monday that review of the case found that Lopez had pleaded guilty involuntarily "in the face of false statements" and under "immense external pressure.
A New York City police vehicle parked near the area where a woman, who came to be known as the Central Park jogger, was raped, beaten and left for dead two nights earlier. Five teenagers were convicted in the attack on Meili and served six to 13 years in prison. Their convictions were overturned in 2002 after evidence linked a convicted serial rapist and murderer, Matias Reyes, to the attack.
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