Some officials are now doubting the guilt of the five youths in the Central Park Jogger case. Journalist Jim Dywer has details of the current re-investigation into the crime in today's New York Times.

Dwyer says interviews with two of the five youths, Mr. Richardson and Mr. Santana, had a "powerful impact on the people investigating the attack." The investigators are working for the District Attorney's office.

The Distict Attorney's office "declined to comment on the inquiry yesterday, but it is clear that the prosecution spent a great deal of energy on reviewing the case. All the evidence still available has been re-examined using advanced DNA testing, and none of it links the five men to the crime. At the trial, the prosecution had argued that hairs found on Mr. Richardson's clothes came from the jogger. Recent DNA tests show that claim to be wrong. "

Jim Dwyer is also the co-author, along with Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, of the book Actual Innocence.