Suffolk University Law School Presents a Screening of The Central Park Five, 4/10

Suffolk University Law School will host a free screening of The Central Park Five, a documentary film about the Central Park Jogger Case, directed by award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband, David McMahon, at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston.

The Central Park Five tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989. The film illustrates the effects of police interrogations and false confessions.

The film is part of the "Annual Children on Trial Conference: Analyzing False Confessions and Their Impact on Juveniles," which will take place from 2 to 7 p.m., on April 10 at Suffolk University Law School.

The conference features Steven Drizin, legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Law School and a national expert on police interrogations, coerced confessions and the juvenile death penalty. He will join a panel of judges and practitioners to discuss the relevance of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases on police interrogations, false confessions, and the effect of the Massachusetts "interested adult" rule on juvenile confessions.

Who: Q-and-A session with filmmakers Sarah Burns, David McMahon and members of the Central Park Five will follow the screening.

When: 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Where: Suffolk University Law School, first-floor function room
120 Tremont St., Boston