He’s going for two.
One of the five men cleared of rape in the Central Park Jogger case says he is confident he will also be exonerated in his latest criminal case — for allegedly throwing a brick at his girlfriend near the park last October.
“I’m always having flashbacks — it lives in me,” Corey Wise, 40, said today, as he left Manhattan Criminal Court, where he’d been arraigned as a teenager in 1989. Today, Wise learned that prosecutors are still working with his defense lawyer and interviewing additional witnesses in the alleged girlfriend assault.
“Hopefully, we won’t have a repeat of what happened last time,” said defense lawyer Jane Fisher-Byrialsen. “There was no brick thrown,” she said. “Corey was not even there” at the alleged assault site, which was only eight blocks north of the jogger rape site.
Wise said he has been touring the country doing Q. and A.’s and panels with the Innocence Project in the wake of a new Ken Burns’ documentary, “The Central Park Five.” His next court date is May 30 for possible grand jury action; he remains out on $1,500 bail and barred by order of protection from any contact with the ex-girlfriend.