VII. A Prosecutor Remembers: Read the most thorough, brilliant report on the Central Park Jogger case!

VII. A Prosecutor Remembers: Read the most thorough, brilliant report on the Central Park Jogger case!

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

[“I. Preface”;

“II. The Crime: April 19, 1989”;

“III. Harlem Goes Bonkers”;

“IV. Harlem Says They’re Innocent”;

“V. The Harlem Spokefolks Materialize”; and

VI. Three Detectives Remember]

VII. A Prosecutor Remembers

An unidentified prosecutor who witnessed the 1989 rape confessions told the New York Post (10/17/02) “Those confessions were good.” At the suggestion that the confessions were coerced, the prosecutor explained, “You had cops who were black, Hispanic and white on the case. You had cops from so many divisions who didn’t know each other. When did they conspire? What’s the logic of cops giving suspects a story that [the jogger] could wake up and contradict? No one knew at the time that she would remember nothing about the attack.”

The prosecutor was particularly incensed at the professed innocence of Kharey Wise, who was released after serving 13 years in the slammer. In a recently released parole-hearing transcript, which defense lawyers tried to suppress, Kharey Wise said: “I never did it, but over my years of incarceration, I have been sorry for it. I have been sorry for going out there that night and being around so-called friends of mine that may have participated in such.”

By “I never did it,” he means to say that he didn’t penetrate the victim with his penis. He says he was just “out there” that night with “so-called friends” who “may have participated” in the rape. Kharey’s mom, Deloris, has been vocal at recent black-power news gatherings; she proclaims her son’s innocence; she says ‘Save my child.’ Under the careful tutelage of black activists Deloris has undergone an amazing transformation. At the time of the crime Deloris didn’t want to have anything to do with her son; she wouldn’t even let him come home.

The prosecutor recalled that at Kharey Wise’s trial a woman testified that Wise had called to speak with a relative of hers and that “he told her without prompting, ‘I just held her legs down while the others raped her.’” As to Wise’s claim that he “never did it,” the prosecutor explained: “My experience with a gang rape is that some can’t get it up.” Impotence is not a defense in this case. Kharey Wise was at the crime scene; he held the victim down; he participated in a gang rape.

Perhaps because he didn’t have sexual intercourse with the victim, Kharey Wise refuses to acknowledge that he committed a sex crime. At a 1998 parole hearing, Kharey Wise said that he had to leave a sex offender program because the counselor did not think he was taking responsibility for his past behavior. Said Wise: “I had told her that I done wrong, did my little wrong, you know, I lived and learned. You know, I done my wrong and I couldn’t quite really get into it, because that was how far my experience went and she felt that I was in denial.” Wise added: “I also apologize to the victim, who I made false accusations on.” He’s referring to the nasty and slanderous characterizations of the victim that the defense team used during Mr. Wise’s trial. Wise’s lawyer suggested that the rape was all a hoax; he referred to the monstrous crime as an “alleged rape.”

I. Preface
II. The Crime: April 19, 1989
III. Harlem Goes Bonkers
IV. Harlem Says They’re Innocent
V. The Harlem Spokesfolks Mobilize
VI. Three Detectives Remember
VII. A Prosecutor Remembers
VIII. The Star Witness
IX. His Story Stinks
X. The Confessions
XI. How Guilty is Harlem
XII. The Forgotten Victim
XIII. Update to the Central Park Rape Case
XIV. The Victim’s Doctor Breaks His Silence
XV. The Jogger Rape Saga Continues
XVI. Thursday, December 5, 2002
XVII. The Matias Reyes/Kharey Wise Connection
XVIII. Don’t Be Fooled
XIX. The End Game
XX. Here Comes the Judge
XXI. Is Nancy Ryan Trustworthy?
XXII. Nancy Ryan’s Twisted Vision
XXIII. Twisted Justice


Additional Material

Stix: “‘It Was Fun’—Robert K. Tanenbaum vs. the Central Park Five, 25 Years Later”; and

Stix: “Ken Burns’ The Central Park Five: The New To Kill a Mockingbird—Fiction Designed to Induce White Guilt.”

(N.S.: These were not the first reports I wrote on the Central Park Jogger case. I’d already written many, going back at least to 2000.)

“The Report That Ken Burns Doesn’t Want You to Read: The Armstrong Report on the Central Park Five’s Many Violent Crimes, and Matias Reyes”