Manhattan DA on the Central Park jogger

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>At 10:08 AM -0500 12/6/02, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote:
>
>>Citing new evidence and a flawed original prosecution, the Manhattan 
>>district attorney has asked a judge to vacate the convictions of the five 
>>young men found guilty in the Central Park jogger case. The D.A.'s 
>>remarkable and chilling report is at:
>>
>>http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cpjoggera1.html

I was impressed by the grudging way that Jim Dwyer of the NY Times provided 
"news analysis" of this story today, i.e.:  "More than one person has 
shrugged at the news that these young men have basically been cleared of 
involvement in the rape, remarking that they were not choirboys who had been 
out chanting vespers in the park that night. They had gone there, as they 
admitted, to rob and beat people. And they did, or they watched as others 
did." <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/06/nyregion/06ASSE.html>

The crack "that they were not choirboys" is identical to the sneering 
language that Rudolph Giuliani used to slander Patrick Dorismond, when the 
latter was gunned down two years ago by the NYPD in a failed entrapment 
scheme.

Carl

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