If you read the press at the time (particularly the NY Post which covered it daily and extensively), there was absolutely no doubt that all these scumbags were responsible. When they are all rotting in hell, they can roast marshmallows over their nice, toasty fire pit with the Carr Brothers.
It's truly frightening that a psychotic like Reyes can be taken "seriously" -- there was no way he did all that damage to the jogger himself. Now the rest of these ba$tards will sue the city, and reap millions for their "damages" they incurred.
Not according to Yusef Salaam, whose accomplices said that he was the one who hit her in the head with a steel pipe, fracturing her skull, and causing her to lose all that blood. Ten years ago on 60 Mintues, he suggested that maybe the jogger was "faking" her injuries.
If you read the press at the time (particularly the NY Post which covered it daily and extensively), there was absolutely no doubt that all these scumbags were responsible.
Correct.
When they are all rotting in hell, they can roast marshmallows over their nice, toasty fire pit with the Carr Brothers.
It's truly frightening that a psychotic like Reyes can be taken "seriously" -- there was no way he did all that damage to the jogger himself. Now the rest of these ba$tards will sue the city, and reap millions for their "damages" they incurred.
Morgenthau's go-fer, Nancy Ryan, did not question a single detail of Reyes' story, his lack of details for most of the story, or his statemtn that he had not worked his way so far uptown. she actively obstruicted justice, by interrupting detectives when they tired to ask him questions, and telling other inmates in the same prison to refuse to cooperate with NYPD detectives who sought to investigate Reyes' credibility. Ryan also refused to interview the prosecutors and lead detectives from the case. the fix was in, from the get-go.
Note too that Reyes is a little guy, and was 17 or 18 at the time, and surely weighed a lot less than he does now, after 13 years in a taxpayer-financed, body-building program. No way did he drag a woman in superb condition, fighting for her life, 200 yards by himself.
Robert Morgenthau is a classic, patrician phony, the kind Harry Truman called a "high hat." He's full of sanctimony, but acts purely from expedience and the narrowest self-interest.