Ann Coulter is a sham like her article

Ann Coulter's writing style itself is horrendous. But, I will focus simply on her lack of logic and reason.

She makes the claim that "Even if they were innocent of the Central Park rape... they were arrested... rampaging through the park, assaulting people." By her logic, if a person is accused of one crime, they must be guilty of another crime as well. She would have them punished simply because they were accused of being part of the larger mayhem that happened in the park that night.

Coulter, like others who still refuse to accept the injustices and malpractice committed in this case, clings to the confessions as the primary evidence. Although the police at the time denied interrogating the boys when they were alone and supplying them with details of what happened, it is incontrovertible that the boys were questioned for hours, anywhere from 14 to 30. Clearly, it was in the police department's interest to deny any violations of protocol and to deny having used strong-arm tactics to shape the confessions. Even taking the confessions at face value, the versions from the five boys have completely different accounts, different details, not only contradicting each other's versions but also the actual facts of what happened. Events in the Chicago police department's recent history are just one example of how some officers will fabricate details about arrests, interrogations, and investigations to cover up mishandling of a case. And, without video records to disprove these, it is often the police officials' version that becomes accepted as fact.

Connected with this is Coulter's claim that one of the boys incriminated himself before any of this information about the jogger was known. Again, how easy is it for officers to add information to police reports. There is no video or audio recording of this claimed piece of confession. This also does not take into account that some of the boys were transferred to another precinct after they had been questioned about the jogger and told some of these details.

But the biggest problem with Coulter's faulty conclusion of their guilt is a complete inability to account for the facts of the evidence. How is it possible that, given the nature and spontaneity of the crime, that only one person's DNA was found at the scene--Reyes, the actual perpetrator. Similarly, how is it that, with the extreme amount of blood loss, how did none of the five boys have any of the jogger's blood on their clothing? Three of them were arrested right by the park. How would they have had time to change clothes and wash up, considering the prosecution's theory that they were running amok to commit the series of assaults that happened that night. If they were on top of her, it stands to reason that at least one of them would have had some trace of blood on them.

No one is saying the five boys were angels, that they weren't teen age boys causing trouble--even crimes. But, the ideal of justice is that you are held accountable for your actions. By their mishandling of the case, the police and prosecutors at that time enabled Reyes to commit more rapes and murders.

Coulter has used this case and her twisted logic to try and serve her own financial and political ends.