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The five men who comprise the Central Park Five, and now call themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for defamation in connection with his remarks during the presidential debate. The lawsuit focuses on the Sept.
The five spent years behind bars before being exonerated in 2002 after DNA evidence linked another man, a serial rapist, to the attack. The city ultimately agreed in a legal settlement to pay the exonerated men $41 million. The case came at a time of heightened racial tensions and when crime dominated headlines. Trump, then a real estate mogul, had taken out large ads in newspapers calling for the death penalty for the five men.
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