Accusing the show of defaming her character, Fairstein has taken issue with her portrayal as “an overzealous prosecutor and a bigot”.
The prosecutor involved in the trial of the Central Park Five has hit out at Ava Duvernay’s Netflix show When They See Us, deeming the drama “full of distortions and falsehoods as to be an outright fabrication”.
Even though the culprit for the crime was eventually convicted, Fairstein insists that the Central Park Five were nonetheless charged at the time with being accomplices due to separate supporting evidence.
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