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Williams, Activists to Vance: Review Central Park 5 Prosecutor's Cases

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 9/25/19

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams joined with a coalition of activists to demand that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. review cases prosecuted by the former head of the DA’s Sex-Crimes Unit, Linda Fairstein. 

They contend that that Ms. Fairstein, who oversaw the prosecution of the Central Park Five, the teenagers whose 1990 convictions in connection with the brutal rape of a jogger the year before were overturned in 2002, was driven more by prosecutorial zeal than pursuing justice.

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