DNA in Central Park Jogger Case Spurs Call for New Review

[R]

this story was on amy goodman's democracy now this morning.   along with a 
report that the Los Angeles Police Dept. is destroying DNA evidence to 
prevent verdict reversals.

R

At 08:08 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:


>[This is very carefully worded.  But it heavily suggests that all the kids
>convicted in the famous Central Park Jogger case -- aka the "Wilding" case
>-- might well have been framed.  When you consider how much play this case
>got, and how significant it was culturally -- it was the nadir of the race
>& crime-baiting politics of the 80s, whose institutionalized solutions
>still in many ways form our world today -- that would be pretty
>jawdropping news.]
>
>New York Times
>September 6, 2002
>
>DNA in Central Park Jogger Case Spurs Call for New Review
>
>    By ROBERT D. McFADDEN and SUSAN SAULNY
>
>    S emen found on the sock of the victim in the notorious Central Park
>    jogger case 13 years ago has been conclusively linked by DNA tests to
>    a convicted murderer-rapist serving a life term in an prison upstate,
>    a law-enforcement official familiar with a sweeping new investigation
>    of the case said yesterday.
>
>