As one of the Central Park Five, he served seven years in prison for a horrific crime he didn’t commit. Now he wants to serve the city that condemned him.
Netflix was ordered by a federal judge to face a defamation lawsuit by best-selling author and former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein over her portrayal in a 2019 crime drama about the Central Park Five case.
A federal judge has ordered Netflix to face a defamation lawsuit by former prosecutor Linda Fairstein, who asserts that the scenes in When They See Us portray her in a false and defamatory light.
US District Judge Kevin Castel on Tuesday said Fairstein plausibly alleged that Netflix, director Ava DuVernay and writer-producer Attica Locke acted with actual malice as to five scenes in "When They See Us."