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Tag: Linda Fairstein
News Roundup
Law School Lecturer Resigns in Wake of Netflix Central Park Five Viewing
Manhattan assistant district attorney Elizabeth Lederer resigned Wednesday from her part-time lecturer position at Columbia Law School after a group of Black students called on her to quit based on her role as a prosecutor in the overturned Central Park 5 conviction, according to a report in the New York Daily News. Lederer is the […]
June 13, 2019
News Roundup
Central Park Five Prosecutor Resigns Vassar Trustee Board
Amidst a swarm of controversy over a Netflix series about a wrongful conviction in a high-profile New York City rape case, author and former prosecutor Linda Fairstein has resigned as a trustee of her alma mater, Vassar College. Fairstein, who graduated in 1969, was a prosecutor in the 1989 case commonly known as the “Central […]
June 6, 2019
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