New York City Needs Evidence

New York City is demanding that documentary filmmaker Ken Burns hand over footage. The footage captures the story of five men who were wrongfully imprisoned and then exonerated for the rape of a woman in Central Park in 1989. The city is trying to defend itself against the lawsuits that have been filed by "The Central Park Five," the nickname for the exonerated men. The footage contains interviews from the plaintiffs that get to the heart of the case and cannot be obtained elsewhere. Ken Burns is saying though that he will fight; he states that he is a journalist and there are shield laws that protect him from having to compromise his sources. The irony in this case though is that New York City tried to stop Burns from originally getting the interviews but now the city needs them to defend itself in the lawsuit.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/05/justice/new-york-central-park-5/index.html?hpt=hp_c2