New scientific evidence may get convictions oveturned in one of the country’s most racially-charged crimes. Thirteen years ago, a Manhatten jogger was beaten into a coma by a gang of youths. Meanwhile, far from where the Central Park beating took place, Wisconsin lawyers are working to get wrongly-convicted persons out of jail as part of a college project. Shamane Mills reports.
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