[Martin Elster]

A couple of weeks ago, I read pretty much the whole Wikipedia article about the Central Park Five jogger incident (which I didn't know anything about till I saw Ralph's thread).
Here is an excerpt that I found quite disturbing:

Armstrong Report

Following these events, in 2002, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly commissioned a panel of three lawyers to review the case.[65] The panel was made up of two lawyers, Michael F. Armstrong, the former chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, and Jules Martin, a New York University Vice President, as well as Stephen Hammerman, deputy police commissioner for legal affairs.[2][65][66][67][68] The panel issued a 43-page report in January 2003.[65]

The panel disputed Reyes's claim that he alone had raped the jogger.[2][65][66] It said there was "nothing but his uncorroborated word" that he acted alone.[65] Armstrong said the panel believed "the word of a serial rapist killer is not something to be heavily relied upon."[65] The report concluded that the five men whose convictions had been vacated had "most likely" participated in the beating and rape of the jogger and that the "most likely scenario" was that "both the defendants and Reyes assaulted her, perhaps successively."[2][65] The report said Reyes had most likely "either joined in the attack as it was ending or waited until the defendants had moved on to their next victims before descending upon her himself, raping her and inflicting upon her the brutal injuries that almost caused her death."[2][65]

As to the five defendants, the report said:

We believe the inconsistencies contained in the various statements were not such as to destroy their reliability. On the other hand, there was a general consistency that ran through the defendants' descriptions of the attack on the female jogger: she was knocked down on the road, dragged into the woods, hit and molested by several defendants, sexually abused by some while others held her arms and legs, and left semiconscious in a state of undress.[65][66]

"It seems impossible to say that they weren't there at all, because they knew too much," Armstrong said in an interview.[69]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case