Trisha Meili

In the documentary movie, The Central Park Five, when the media is reporting the park jogger case with two completely different tones, it failed to comply a basic moral principle: to be objective on any cases. Extreme descriptions such as “wilding” and “wolf pack” exaggerate the negative image of these teenagers, even though who are actually innocent in this case. The media is trying to plant prejudices in the public’s mind, to make decisions for them to treat the five teenager suspects as pure evil and abominable culprits. The media also uses positive words to emphasize that the victim is so fragile, soft, innocent and unfortunate, but these words are more useful to reflect the suspects’ vicious characterization. What the media does here is obviously not fair and objective because the news reports directly ignite the fuse of the public’s fury. It deprives the chance for people to doubt, reconsider or even think about this case. 2. When the police started to isolate each teenager and confront them about the case, the tactics and questioning strategies that the police used were unethical and unfair, especially when they put too much pressure on the fragile teenagers. These questioning tactics may sometimes be useful on questioning adult criminals, but they would only force the teenagers out of their limits and compel them to draw reckless conclusions or even lie. In the documentary movie, The Central Park Five, all five of the innocent teenagers are forced to make up fake…

Pearl, but they did not stop there. August Anna came into their lives in 1994 and just two years later Allie Colleen made her appearance in the world. “Garth and Sandy thought their life was complete but so they only thought,” said Laura lee in her book. Laura also says “On October 26, 2000 Garth retired to be a “dad who occasionally sings,” he thought this would help his marriage, and his relationship with his three girls.” Garth did not announce his retirement until 2001, when he finished his…

October 26, 2000 Garth retires to be a “dad who occasionally sings,” he thought this would help his marriage, and his relationahip with his 3 girls. Garth did not announce his retirement till 2001 when he finished his last album, “Scarecrow.” Later that year Sandy and Garth got a divorce on December 17th. There never was a valid reason why they got a divorce, but Garth soon found a new smile to find his eyes to wonder to: Trisha Yearwood. Being friends since 87’ they had a lifelong friendship…

Ashley Martinez Professor Nick Philosophy 11 December 5, 2015 Analysis of Central Park Five Case On April 1989, a woman was brutally beaten and raped near Central Park’s 102nd street in New York City, while going on her daily night jog. Five minority youth from ages 13 to 16 were arrested and convicted for the rape and almost-murder of Trisha Meili, a 28 year-old white woman from the upper east side of Manhattan. During this time in 1989 the city of New York was going through some rough…

Kevin Richardson along with other teenagers at approximately 10:15. Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise were brought in for questioning later, after having been identified by other youths as participants in some of the attacks. Around this same time, Trisha Meili was jogging in the Park when she was attacked, rape, and left to die. All five confessed to a number of the attacks committed in the park that night, and implicated one or more of the others. While being questioned about the…

for yourself deeper each time you say something; not knowing that later they would potentially use that in court to incriminate you. People make false confessions based on a number of reasons, even if the outcome isn’t what they wanted. In New York City, 1989, there was a huge news story on a girl named Trisha Meili. She was assaulted and raped. The night of the incident there were five juveniles at the park taken into custody and they were later accused based on false confessions. The FBI…

event. Tom Robinson then gives his account and his boss, Link Deas defended him. Lastly, Atticus gives a closing speech in Robinson’s defence. Sadly, Tom Robinson is convicted and sent to jail. He was later shot for trying to escape from prison. Sadly, this is something that occurred very frequently before the Civil Rights Act and other progress that has led to equality. In this century, there are still a great amount of African Americans and other minorities that are wrongfully convicted due to…

The film, The Central Park Five (Burns, 2012) talks about a true story of a group of innocent teens who gave false confessions that led to getting falsely convicted for the assault, rape, and sodomy of a young female jogger named Trisha Meili. On April 19th, 1989 in Central Park around 9:20pm, Trisha had been attacked. Her body was found barely alive at 1:30am the next morning; suffered from hypothermia, brain damage, and deep stab wounds. The police took this as the perfect opportunity to…

Tom Spring from Research News reported “about 10,000 people in the United States may be wrongfully convicted of serious crimes each year” (1). A large scandal occurred in 1989 where 5 innocent young men were accused of raping Trisha Meili who was jogging in Central Park. On the night of April 19, 1989, a large group of 25 or more African American teenagers stormed Central Park, New York, looking to create havoc and chaos. The boys all committed many crimes that night. Only five teenagers were…