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- µ NATION, Page 23American NotesNEW YORK CITYJogger Trial, Act II
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- When Kevin Richardson, 16, was pronounced guilty of
- attempted murder and rape, his mother fainted. As Kharey Wise,
- 18, was being led out of the courtroom after being convicted
- of sexual abuse, riot and assault, he yelled at Assistant
- District Attorney Elizabeth Lederer, "You bitch! You'll pay for
- this!" Black spectators shouted, "White justice!"
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- So ended the second trial resulting from the vicious rape
- and nearly fatal beating of an investment banker in New York
- City's Central Park in 1989. Three juveniles were convicted of
- rape and assault last August. After the latest trial,
- Richardson faces a maximum sentence of 10 years. Wise, who was
- treated as an adult, could get up to 26. Their sentences will
- be pronounced on Jan. 9. A third trial, slated for next month,
- will determine the fate of the last alleged assailant.
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- The attack, in which the white woman while jogging was
- assaulted by a gang of black and Hispanic teenagers, roiled the
- city's already tense race relations. Black supporters of the
- youths charged that the media had hypocritically focused on
- this case while ignoring countless aggressions against nonwhite
- women. But the jurors -- four whites, four blacks, three
- Hispanics and one Asian -- insisted that they quickly discarded
- race as a factor in their 12 days of deliberations.
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