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Board Member From Area College Quits Over Backlash To Netflix Series On Central Park 5 Board Member From Area College Quits Over Backlash To Netflix Series On Central Park 5
Board Member From Area College Quits Over Backlash To Netflix Series On Central Park 5 Former prosecutor Linda Fairstein has resigned from the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, Vassar College, in the wake of the backlash she’s received for her role in helping oversee the “Central Park Five” case three decades ago that saw five teenage boys of color wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape. The former prosecutor has been in hot water since the release of the Netflix miniseries “When They See Us,” which depicts a dramatization of the trial of the teens who were wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989. Fairstein was a prosecutor in the case, which came un…

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