Criminal Justice
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Central Park Five’s Korey Wise Donates $190,000 to University of Colo.’s Innocence Project
Korey Wise, one of the Central Park Five, is now giving back, hoping to help wrongly convicted inmates, by donating $190,000 to the University of Colorado’s Innocence Project, securing for the program a new lease on life, the Denver Post reports. The program, which is operated out of the university’s law school, has been renamed…
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Judge Signs $41,000,000 Central Park Five Settlement
A federal court judge has signed off on New York City’s $41 million wrongful-conviction settlement with the so-called Central Park Five, court records show, the New York Daily News reports. Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis signed the deal Friday to give $7.125 million each to Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam and Kevin Richardson for their…