Outtakes from a controversial documentary about five men who are suing New York City claiming they were wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 Central Park jogger attack are protected by the reporter’s qualified privilege under federal common law, a judge ruled yesterday.
Southern District Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis rejected the attempt of the city of obtain outtakes from "The Central Park Five" in a $250 million civil rights lawsuit brought by the five men who claim that as teens they were railroaded into giving confessions implicating them in the brutal attack on jogger Patricia Meili.
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