Convictions in Central Park jogger case should be reversed
Friday, December 6, 2002
NEW YORK -- Citing DNA on a sock, prosecutors asked a judge Thursday to throw out the convictions of five young men found guilty of beating and gang-raping a jogger during a 1989 "wilding" spree in Central Park that exposed the city's deep racial divide to the rest of the nation.
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