Compare the similarities and differences among the 3 cases of the former sailors (the Norfolk Four case), the Central Park teenagers (the Central Park Jogger case), and the case in Chicago False Confession Capital.

The similarities

  • in The Central Park Five and Chicago: False Confessions Capital, the men were black and Hispanic;
  • in The Central Park Five and Chicago: False Confessions Capital, the falsely accused, were teenagers;
  • the victim was a woman in every case;
  • the interrogation was performed in a manner that made the boys feel scared and made them sign a confession;
  • in all cases, the confessions were used against the young men, and the evidence against the real assailants did not have a stronger effect on the jury;
  • all of the falsely accused men find it difficult to accommodate to the new environment since many people still consider them to be criminals.

The differences

  • in The Confessions, the men were white;
  • in The Confessions, the falsely accused were in their twenties;
  • in The Central Park Five, the victim was white, and the assailants were black, which raised a huge interracial conflict;
  • the interrogation was the longest in The Central Park Five (up to 30 hours);
  • in The Central Park Five, the boys’ parents did not express enough support and did not hire attorneys.
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