Central park jogger biography of williams

In , Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City finally settled with the Central Park Five, a group of teenagers who were convicted and later exonerated in connection with the rape and brutal assault on a jogger.

"They spent a lot of their lives in jail, in prison, wrongly," de Blasio said at a news conference at that time.

"We have an obligation to turn the page.

The actor takes on one of the most publicized crimes of the s with his role in the new Netflix series "When They See Us".

The actor takes on one of the most publicized crimes of the s with his role in the new Netflix series "When They See Us".

Trisha Meili -- the jogger in that horrific attack -- says the city should not have made.

The Central Park jogger case was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman who was running in Central Park in Manhattan.

In , Korey Wise — a member of the Exonerated Five — was wrongly convicted of a rape and assault he did not commit in New York.

"William Ramsey Investigates" Your Eyes Or Your Life: The True Story Of The Central Park Jogger Rapist with Author and Attorney Richard Siracusa.

We have an obligation to do something fair for them, for the whole city to turn the page and move forward."

But the settlement remains a decision that Trisha Meili -- the jogger in that horrific attack -- says the city should not have made.

And the police and prosecutors involved in the case agree.

Watch the full story on "20/20" Friday, May 24, at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

"I so wish the case hadn't been settled," Meili told ABC News' "20/20" in January.

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