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By Jonathan Stempel<\/p>\n

NEW YORK (Reuters) – (This Sept. 20 story has been refiled to correct typographical error in paragraph 9) <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

U.S. 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.”<\/p>\n

The series dramatized the story of five Black and Hispanic teenagers who spent five to 13 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted in the April 1989 rape of a white jogger in Central Park. Another man confessed in 2002.<\/p>\n

Castel in a 67-page decision found evidence that in depicting Fairstein as a villain emblematic of broader problems in criminal justice, the defendants “reverse-engineered plot points to attribute actions, responsibilities and viewpoints to Fairstein that were not hers and are unsupported in defendants’ substantial body of research materials.”<\/p>\n

The Manhattan judge said jurors should decide whether there was “clear and convincing evidence that defendants were recklessly indifferent to the truth.”<\/p>\n

Netflix, based in Los Gatos, California, and the defendants’ lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Fairstein had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n

Fairstein, 76, had been running the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office when the 28-year-old jogger, later identified as Trisha Meili, was attacked.<\/p>\n

The five alleged defamatory scenes include suggestions that Fairstein withheld evidence, coerced confessions and ordered a mass police roundup of young Black men in Harlem.<\/p>\n

Backlash from the series caused Fairstein to lose her publisher, resign under pressure from several boards and be attacked on social media including under the hashtag #CancelLindaFairstein.<\/p>\n

The defendants said Fairstein offered no evidence that their portrayal of her “reflected the essence of truth” and was protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

They also said that the lawsuit threatened filmmakers’ ability to dramatize controversial, real-life events when told from “different and often marginalized perspectives.”<\/p>\n

New York City reached a $41 million settlement with the five original defendants, without admitting wrongdoing, in 2014.<\/p>\n

The case is Fairstein v. Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:) et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 20-08042. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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