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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/central-park-five-trump-defamation/index.html

[quote]The five men claim in a federal lawsuit that Trump knew he was acting with “reckless disregard” for the truth when he said during the September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that they pleaded guilty to crimes connected to the beating and raping a woman in New York City, and that the five teenagers “badly hurt a person, killed a person” in the attack.

“Defendant Trump’s statements were false and defamatory in numerous respects,” attorneys for the men, now all in their 50s, wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Philadelphia. “Plaintiffs never pled guilty to the Central Park assaults. Plaintiffs all pled not guilty and maintained their innocence throughout their trial and incarceration, as well as after they were released from prison.”

“None of the victims of the Central Park assaults were killed,” the lawyers for Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise wrote.[/quote][/quote]

Isn't this well over the statute of limitations?[/quote]

The statements by Trump were made last month.[/quote]
"Continuing Tort" Although (NAL) I think there can be arguments whether the statute runs from when he started defaming them or can still be raised. Maybe if he had not commented on them being actually guilty (or if before he acknowledged the victim was not killed) since they were exonerated?

Would his defense be that people already know they were exonerated so he can lie about them without damaging their reputations, and invoke his own reputation for lying? (Hasn't he done something like that before? Or am I thinking of a Rudy defense that his claims were obviously ridiculous re 2020 election)?[/quote]
He said they plead guilty when they never did, and he said someone died when no one did.[/quote]

False isn’t enough. You have to prove reckless disregard and intent. [/quote]

Given his history with the Central Park Five, it shouldn't be too hard. This is not a case of him mis-speaking, or misunderstanding. He has always maintained that they were guilty, even after they were released, and the city paid them for their mistake.[/quote]

I don’t think it will be that easy.

They confessed at the time. He said they pled guilty. In the fluster of a high powered debate, that can be explained as a mistake made in a stressful situation in terms of wording.

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They were teenage kids, who were coerced into "confessions" by lengthy, aggressive police interrogation while being denied access to legal counsel.  They were kids who weren't even allowed to speak to their parents.  Their "confessions" did not align with any of the forensic evidence, and NONE of their DNA matched DNA found at the scene.

Many years later, the ACTUAL rapist was caught and convicted.  His DNA DID match.

And at the time, Trump was leading the charge of falsely convicting them in the court of public opinion, and took out a full page ad calling for them to be put to death, like a modern-day lynching.  Yet we know now they didn't do it.  It was a disgraceful, racist episode, and Trump was at the epicenter of it.

They arrested, falsely convicted, and falsely imprisoned the wrong people.[/quote]

The jury at the time knew their DNA was not found on the body. They were convicted of holding her down and hitting her her while the one guy (not one of the five, and not known at that time) raped her. [/quote]

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