Update, 10/10/12, 2:47 p.m. EDT: A response from filmmaker Joseph Berlinger to comments made by Baker & Hostetler attorney John Siegal about Berlinger’s film Crude have been added to the 16th and 17th paragraphs below.

In 1990, John Siegal was a speechwriter for then–New York City mayor David Dinkins when five Harlem teenagers were convicted and sentenced to prison for raping a 28-year-old investment banker as she jogged in Central Park on the evening of April 19, 1989. Virtually the only evidence against the teens was their videotaped confessions.

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