This film is a masterful portrayal of 5 teenage boys on a collision course with police investigators overzealous to wrap up prosecution of the rape of a jogger in Central Park. The PIs planted false testimony on the boys' statements. It is fasciunating to observe the teenagers constructing layered falsehoods in an effort to protect themselves, never uttering a cry of innocence during the court proceedings.
The Central Park jogger case involved the violent assault, rape, and sodomy of Trisha Meili, a female jogger, in Central Park, on April 19, 1989. The attack left her in a coma for 12 days. Meili was a 28-year-old investment banker at the time, weighing under 100 pounds. Sarah Burns, the daughter of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, worked for a summer as a paralegal in the office of one of the lawyers handling a lawsuit on behalf of those convicted in the case.
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