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The Central Park jogger case concerned the assault, rape, and sodomy of Trisha Meili, a female jogger, and attacks on others in New York City's Central Park, on April 19, 1989. The attack on the female jogger left her in a coma for 12 days. Meili was a 28-year-old investment banker at the time, weighing under 100 pounds. The attacks were, according to ''The New York Times'', "one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s." Five juvenile males—four black and one of Hispanic descent—were tried, variously, for assault, robbery, riot, rape, sexual abuse, and attempted murder. They were convicted of most charges by juries in two separate trials in 1990, and received sentences ranging from five to 15 years. Four of the convictions were appealed; they were affirmed by appellate courts. The defendants spent between six and 13 years in prison. In 2002, Matias Reyes, a Hispanic male who had been a juvenile at the time of the attack, confessed to raping the jogger, and DNA evidence confirmed his involvement in Meili's rape. He also said he committed the rape alone. Reyes at the time of his confession was a convicted serial rapist and murderer, serving a life sentence. He was not prosecuted for raping Meili, because the statute of limitations had passed by the time Reyes confessed. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, stopping short of saying the five were innocent, suggested to the court that their convictions related to the assault and rape of Meili and the attacks on others to which they had confessed be vacated (a legal position in which the parties are treated as though no trial has taken place), withdrew all charges, and did not seek a retrial. Their convictions were vacated in 2002. The five who had been convicted sued New York City in 2003 for malicious prosecution, racial discrimination, and emotional distress. The city refused to settle the suits for a decade under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, because the city's lawyers felt they would win. However, after Bill de Blasio became mayor and supported the settlement, the city settled the case for $41 million in 2014. As of December 2014, the five men were pursuing an additional $52 million in damages from New York State in the New York Court of Claims. ==Survivor== The survivor, then 28-year-old Trisha Ellen Meili, lived on East 83rd Street between York Avenue and East End Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. At the time of the attack she was a vice president in the corporate finance department and energy group of the Wall Street investment bank Salomon Brothers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jogger Reluctantly Surrenders Privacy in Court )〕〔Mackenzie Carpenter (March 29, 2003). ("Central Park jogger writes book about her life since attack; 'How the hell did I survive?'" ), ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CNN Larry King Weekend; Encore Presentation: Interview With Trisha Meili )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Central Park jogger tells her story in Greenfield )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trisha Meili: About Trisha )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I am the Central Park Jogger )〕〔Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, ("New Light on Jogger's Rape Calls Evidence Into Question" ), ''The New York Times''〕 At the time of the attack, she weighed less than 100 pounds. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Central Park jogger case」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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