By Kenneth Lovett
ALBANY — Three members of the Central Park Five who wrongly spent years
in prison for the notorious rape of a jogger that they didn't commit
are calling on the state Legislature to enact reforms designed to keep
innocents from being incarcerated.
Working on a new campaign with the Innocence Project and the state New
York Hotel Trades Council, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef
Salaam took part in an ad set to be unveiled this week backing
legislation to require the electronic recording of police interrogations
and new procedures on evidence-based eyewitness identification.
The ad, which will be part of a digital and cable TV campaign, notes
there have been 223 wrongful convictions that have been overturned in
New York State since 1989. Of those, 76 were freed because of eyewitness
misidentification and 34 as a result of a false confession.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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