Editor’s Note: With the release of Netflix’s miniseries “When They See Us,” there is renewed interest in the criminal prosecution in the assault of the Central Park jogger. So, we’re sharing this story that we posted in July of 2018.

Attorneys for the wrongly convicted men known as the Central Park Five said the first portion of a massive trove of documents and other materials from their criminal and civil cases, released late on Thursday evening via a New York City government website, paint an unfavorably biased portrait of their exonerated clients.