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Subpoena

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In 2003, a year after their convictions were vacated, the Central Park Five filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of New York and the police officers and prosecutors who had worked towards their convictions. In September of 2012 the City of New York subpoenaed all the materials from the film. In February of 2013 the ruling squashed the subpoena in favor of Florentine Films.

Extras
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
The Central Park Five talk about what the film means to them.
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon discuss their film, Central Park Five
The Central Park Five did not take a plea bargain.
Film making has become a family business for Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon.
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon discuss the term, 'wilding.'
The central park five are tricked into implicating themselves and each other.
Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana discuss the manipulation of their interrogation.
The Central Park Five describe their lives before April 20, 1989.
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