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Back Stories: Central Park Five Case

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — From the arrests, to the trial, to the "stunning reversal," Irene Cornell covered the Central Park jogger case for WCBS.

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She says there was a "drumbeat" from the police, press and public to arrest and convict the five teens falsely accused in the attack.

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