Netflix Must Face Central Park Five Prosecutor’s Defamation Suit

Five scenes from Netflix’s series about the “Central Park Five” potentially defame former sex crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein, a New York federal judge said, advancing her lawsuit against the streaming service, director/producer Ava DuVernay, and writer/producer Attica Locke.

Fairstein was chief of the sex crimes prosecutions unit in the New York County District Attorney’s Office during the investigation and prosecution of the five Black teens convicted of the beating and rape of Trisha Meili, a White woman who was jogging in Central Park in 1989.

Their convictions were vacated after the confession of a man whose DNA matched a sample ...