“I don’t think there is a question in the minds of anyone present during the interrogation process that these five men were participants in the attack on the jogger”

Joel Cohen’s thoughtful piece (New York Law Journal, August 13, 2019) on the prosecutor’s responsibility, when confronted with past error, brings into focus the all too frequent schism between the advocate as a professional and that advocate’s human frailties.Thus, the assistant district attorney overseeing the prosecution of the five teenagers wrongfully convicted of brutally assaulting a jogger in Central Park in 1989, recalls her contemporaneous assessment of the police interrogation, as quoted above.

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