Explain how the case of the Central Park 5 pertains to the issue of false confessions.
What will be an ideal response?
Five teenagers were convicted of attacking and raping a jogger in 1989. They were later exonerated, but not before one had served 11 years and four had served 7 years in prison. Defense lawyers argued unsuccessfully that their confessions were false, produced by coercive interrogation techniques. Thirteen years after the crime a prisoner serving a sentence for three rapes and a murder confessed to the attack. His unique knowledge of the crime and a DNA match on the samples recovered from the victim resulted in the original convictions of the teenagers being vacated. Some of the original suspects in the Central Park case apparently confessed at the urging of a parent or because they believed they would then be free to go home after being held at the police station for many hours.
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