Korey Wise

Four of them served close to six years.

The fifth, Corey Wise, the only one tried as an adult, served almost 12.

In 2002, a man already in prison for rape and murder, a man whose name had been sitting in the original case file the whole time, confessed, alone.

The DNA matched him.

Raymond Santana, 14 years old.

And Corey Wise, 16 years old.

Corey Wise wasn't even a suspect.

He came to a police station to support his friend, Yusuf Salam.

He wasn't supposed to be there.

Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusuf, Selim, Raymond Santana, convicted as juveniles.

They served approximately six to seven years each.

Corey Wise tried as an adult because he was 16, sentenced to 5 to 15 years.

Antron McRae.

Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, and Korey Wise, Korey with a K, K-O-R-E-Y.

Five Black and Latino teenagers from New York City supposedly wrongfully convicted of a brutal assault on a jogger and rape.

Their convictions, built entirely on coerced false confessions, which I have found disputed, were vacated in, uh, 2002 after DNA evidence matched the actual serial attacker, who was older.