President-elect Donald Trump petitioned a federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by the Central Park Five, a group of men exonerated in 2002 for a notorious 1989 rape case.

All six were convicted of the 1984 murder of Catherine Fuller despite the absence of physical evidence connecting them to the ...

President-elect Donald Trump requested Wednesday that a federal court drop a defamation lawsuit against him tied to the Central Park Five allegations. Trump’s attorneys say his remarks about the ...

Trump's lawyers said in a court filing that his statements about the men, known widely as the Central Park Five, were legally protected expressions of opinion. The Central Park Five were cleared ...