The defendants _ Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray and Raymond Santana _ were acquitted of the top count of attempted murder and a lesser count of sodomy.
Salaam and Antron McCray, both 16, and Raymond Santana, 15, were convicted Aug. 18 of attacking the woman and assaulting two men the same night.
The detectives persuaded 16-year-old Antron McCray to implicate himself in written and videotaped statements by threatening the teen with jail if he didn't cooperate, Joseph charged.
They demonstrated an intent to kill her." She asked the jury to convict Yusef Salaam, 16; Raymond Santana, 15; and Antron McCray, 16, in the attack on the jogger and attacks on two male joggers during a gang rampage through Central Park.