Elizabeth Lederer, prosecutor in Central Park 5 case, has resigned from her teaching position at Columbia Law School
Elizabeth Lederer, the former prosecutor in the Central Park 5 case, has resigned from a part-time lecturing position at Columbia Law School, citing the renewed level of interest in the 1989 trial following Ava Duvernay’s Netflix mini-seriesThe news came Wednesday night, in an email sent to students from the law school dean, Gillian Lester, thereported. Lester wrote that the miniseries had “reignited a painful—and vital—national conversation about race, identity, and criminal justice.
Lederer is not the first prosecutor to send innocent Black and Latinx children to prison, nor will she be the last. Rather, the legal system as a whole, including legal education, endorses a carceral state that devalues the lives of Black and Brown people.
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