Linda Fairstein, a former US prosecutor turned crime novelist, has been dropped by her publisher amid renewed outcry over her role in the wrongful conviction of five teenagers for the brutal rape of a female jogger in 1989.
The black and Hispanic teenagers, known as the Central Park Five, were exonerated in 2002.
New Netflix mini-series When They See Us has returned attention to the case.
It has inspired a #CancelLindaFairstein movement on social media. Read more