The Central Park Five Case: Where the racist cops and prosecutors are now

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https://thegrio.com/2019/06/03/central-park-five-prosecution-revisiting/

The Central Park Five Case: Where the racist cops and prosecutors are now
The Central Park Five case has been mostly seen through the eyes of the wrongly convicted, but it took the operatives of the criminal justice system to incarcerate them. They still maintain their stance, despite being proven wrong.

WHAT HE DID: In his tenure as Manhattan D.A., from 1975 to 2009, Robert Morgenthau had seen some of the nation’s most high-profile cases ranging from the murder of John Lennon to “subway vigilante” Bernard Goetz to the Tupac Shakur sexual abuse case. His office was known for their successfully wins, but the Central Park Five case is one his team got very wrong and he knew it.

“I had complete confidence in Linda Fairstein,” he told the New York Times in 2016. “Turned out to be misplaced. But we rectified it.” He acknowledges the mistakes, but like the others says that the confessions of the teens were what drove the prosecutions. “Did I feel badly?” he said. “Yeah, I felt badly. We had screwed up. But there were confessions.”

“This court was handpicked by Dist. Atty. Robert M. Morgenthau. They (the teens) were tried by a lynch mob in a lynch court by a specially selected judge.” —C. Vernon Mason, attorney for Antron McCray

That wasn’t good enough for others who felt the case was a miscarriage of justice. Ron Kuby, who served as Yusuf Salaam’s attorney during his initial appeal, was critical of Morganthau and says he could have done more to foster fairness rather than seeking to fill up prisons.

“Robert Morgenthau’s tenure almost precisely tracked the era of mass incarceration,” Kuby told the Times. “He was the dean and he could have used his moral authority to change that trajectory, and he was silent. He was an active contributor to mass incarceration.”

C. Vernon Mason, Antron McCray’s lawyer agreed after he was convicted. “This court was handpicked by Dist. Atty. Robert M. Morgenthau. They (the teens) were tried by a lynch mob in a lynch court by a specially selected judge.”

WHERE IS HE NOW?: At age 99, in his retirement, Morganthau remains active as a philanthropist and with the Immigrant Justice Corps, in which he advises on immigrant deportation cases, according to The New York Post.

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1. So, Robert M. Morgenthau is still at being a racist it seems

At age 99, in his retirement, Morganthau remains active as a philanthropist and with the Immigrant Justice Corps, in which he advises on immigrant deportation cases, according to The New York Post

I wonder if he is behind the caging of children???

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2. Using your favorite search engine to find out info about the "Immigrant Justice Corps"

before posting that (or reading the referenced New York Post article: https://nypost.com/2018/10/03/at-99-years-old-robert-morganthau-lives-to-see-justice/ ) might have been a good idea.

But these days he’s toiling in a less glamorous field — advising on hundreds of immigrant-deportation cases through Wachtell, Lipton and a law fellowship program, the Immigrant Justice Corps, which he helped found four years ago.

It’s a newly urgent, pro bono issue close to his heart.

“We represent as many ­undocumented immigrants as we can,” he said.

“If you’re not represented by counsel, you get clobbered in court,” he noted of the 750,000 pending immigration cases nation­wide.

“If you plead guilty to being ticketed on a federally supported highway, that’s a ­deportable defense.”

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3. Good to hear.

Thanks for posting this.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Forgetting the title the article itself is pretty good and if you read it you can see that the case

isn't really as simple as many people would like to believe now that it was.

Also if the author of an article quotes an attorney perhaps they should also mention that said attorney was disbarred for "66 instances of professional misconduct with 20 clients over the course of 6 years" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Vernon_Mason).