FILE- In this March 26, 1988 file photo, prosecutor Linda Fairstein, left, is shown during a news conference in New York. Fairstein, now an author, was to received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America but the group withdrew the award on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, after other writers condemned the ex-prosecutor's role in New York's notorious Central Park Five case. Seated at the table from left are Linda Fairstein, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, and Ellen Levin, whose daughter Jennifer Levin was murdered in 1988. (AP Photo/Charles Wenzelberg, File)