The Central Park jogger case was a criminal case in the United States based on the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman who was jogging in the park, and attacks on eight other people, in areas ranging from the North Woods to the Reservoir of Manhattan's Central Park, on the night of April 19, 1989.
Three of the victims were black or Latino. Meili was so badly injured that she was in a coma for 12 days.
The New York Times in 1990 described the attack on her as "one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s".
This case is also called the Central Park Five case because of the five suspects accused of rape. The Central Park jogger case famous because it reflects how racial minorities are treated unfairly in the American legal system.