“It’s Crushing”: The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated [themarshallproject.org]
By Jamiles Lartey, Photo: Steven Hirsch/New York Post/Associated Press, The Marshall Project, July 30, 2022 If there’s one story of wrongful conviction that most people know, it’s that of the Exonerated Five. The New York City teens, all Black or Latino, were convicted in the 1989 rape of a Central Park jogger, and incarcerated for six to 14 years each before another man confessed. Few people remembered that there was a sixth defendant on that indictment: Steven Lopez, who had accepted a...