Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. It was released in the US on November 23, 2012. Critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times said of the film, which he ranked as the fifth best documentary of 2012: "A notorious crime—the rape of a jogger in Central Park in 1989—is revisited in this painful, angry, scrupulously reported story of race, injustice and media frenzy."The documentary provides background, interviews, expert analysis and details of associated facts related to the Central Park jogger case and the conviction of the five suspects. Although four of the suspects had confessed on videotape in the presence of a parent or guardian, they retracted their statements within weeks, claiming that they had been intimidated, lied to, and coerced into making false confessions.In 2002, convicted rapist and murderer Matias Reyes, serving a life sentence for other crimes but not, at that point, associated by the police with the attack on the jogger Trisha Meili, declared that he had committed the assault when he was 17, and that he had acted alone. The documentary presents analysis to suggest that the police should have connected Reyes to the Central Park case at the time that it happened. The DNA evidence confirmed his participation in the crime and identified him as the sole contributor of the semen found in and on the victim. Justice Charles J. Tejada of State Supreme Court in Manhattan vacated all convictions against the young men in connection with the jogger attack and a spree of robberies and assaults in the park that night.. }
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- The_Central_Park_Five abstract "The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. It was released in the US on November 23, 2012. Critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times said of the film, which he ranked as the fifth best documentary of 2012: "A notorious crime—the rape of a jogger in Central Park in 1989—is revisited in this painful, angry, scrupulously reported story of race, injustice and media frenzy."The documentary provides background, interviews, expert analysis and details of associated facts related to the Central Park jogger case and the conviction of the five suspects. Although four of the suspects had confessed on videotape in the presence of a parent or guardian, they retracted their statements within weeks, claiming that they had been intimidated, lied to, and coerced into making false confessions.In 2002, convicted rapist and murderer Matias Reyes, serving a life sentence for other crimes but not, at that point, associated by the police with the attack on the jogger Trisha Meili, declared that he had committed the assault when he was 17, and that he had acted alone. The documentary presents analysis to suggest that the police should have connected Reyes to the Central Park case at the time that it happened. The DNA evidence confirmed his participation in the crime and identified him as the sole contributor of the semen found in and on the victim. Justice Charles J. Tejada of State Supreme Court in Manhattan vacated all convictions against the young men in connection with the jogger attack and a spree of robberies and assaults in the park that night.".