had anything to do with the rape‚ which lead to their conviction. More then three months later Matias Reyes confessed to the central park rape. He confessed shortly after being convicted of killing a pregnant woman while her children watched‚ he said he confessed because it was what god wanted him to do. When the lab tests returned it was determined that the semen found on the victim match Matias Reyes‚ and later after further investigation the hair found on the defendants clothing was found to not
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Guglielmi 1 Erin Guglielmi The Road to Justice As Fredrik Douglass‚ an American social reformer‚ says‚ “Where justice is denied‚ where ignorance prevails‚ and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress‚ rob and degrade them‚ neither persons nor property will be safe”. In the trial of Tom Robinson vs. Mayella Ewell in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Tom Robinson is a victim of injustice when he is falsely accused of raping Mayella
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uncontrollably‚ something that people‚ mostly white‚ took issue with. The white society felt entitled to justice‚ to bringing these kids down just based on the color of their skin and the color of the victim’s. In the end‚ even after the actual perpetrator‚ Reyes Matias‚ stepped forward‚ the media‚ through lack of coverage‚ proved how far society still had to go. The amount of attention the trial and incarceration received
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the crime. Likewise even though one of the cops who worked for both the serial rapist and jogger case had both semen samples he never cross checked the semen of the similar motives. The only time the five were acquitted for their crime was when Matias Reyes the man behind the decade old crime met Wise in jail and felt ashamed of sending innocent men to prison. All of the five in 2002 were admonished from their
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The government did not have enough evidence to judge these five black men and Latino Americans; however‚ because of the racial discrimination‚ the justices judged them as guilty and sentenced them to jail about 9 to 15 years. After few months‚ Matias Reyes confessed to the rape case and the lab test also showed that the sperm was matched. The five teenagers were released after the suspect confessed his crime. Directors of the movie‚ Ken Burns‚ Sarah Burns‚ and David Mcmahon‚ used this movie to
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and served time for the attack on the central park jogger. Thirteen years later‚ a man named Matias Reyes who was not related to the crime at all is now coming forward from behind bars and saying‚ "you know what‚ by the way‚ I’m the one who did it. And the five teenagers who served time‚ they didn’t do it." And the DNA that was taken from the victim’s body at the time of the attack matches Reyes. Reyes also confessed to an identical crime two days earlier in the same area of the park. The lawyers
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present) • SERAFIN HILADO 1942 - 1945 • ENGRACIO FABRE 1945 - 1950 • JOSE P. BENGZON 1950 - 1950 • VICENTE DELA CRUZ 1951 - 1954 • EMILIO GALANG 1954 - 1962 • MARTINIANO VIVO 1962 - 1966 • SAMUEL REYES 1966 - 1967 • EDMUNDO M. REYES 1967 - 1986 • ENRIQUE M. JOAQUIN 1986 -1987 • RAMON J. LIWAG (Acting Capacity) 1987 - 1988 • MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO Jan. 4‚ 1988 - July 17‚ 1989 • BIENVENIDO P. ALANO July 4‚ 1989 - Dec. 21‚ 1989 •
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Ronald Cotton‚ it was a case of Mistaken Identity and the witness is the victim‚ her testimony is what keeps Ronald in prison. Not the color of his skin. The same exact situation presented itself in the central park five‚ an individual by name of Matias Reyes‚ a Hispanic male‚ confessed to the attack that left twenty-eight-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili in a twelve day coma. DNA evidence proved he was the perpetrator. Another case of Mistaken
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Antron McCray‚ Kevin Richardson‚ Raymond Santana‚ Korey Wise‚ and Yusef Salaam confessed to her rape after hours of being interrogated by the officers. They served many years in jail after a man named‚ Matias Reyes a serial rapist admitted to the crime‚ and with the DNA result he was a match. The boys lost their childhood in jail because the cops wanted to catch the rapist so fast they ignored the evidence that was right in front of their faces. Even after
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Jose is known as “The Father of the Salvadorian Fatherland”. On February 24‚ 1767 Jose Matias Delgado was born. Jose Matias Delgado was born in San Salvador‚ El Salvador. In 1797‚ Jose Matias Delgado was ordained in a seminary in Guatemala. There Jose Matias Delgado became the vicar of San Salvador after earning a degree in theology and civil and canonical rights. He organized a rebellion for freedom. By leading this
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