Aside from wishing we all have mercy for teenage mistakes*, big and small, I think you might be missing the point. The Fives' case has taken on much larger significance in terms of how the entire system abuses its power. Criminal justice, media, prisons etc.

To that end, the plight of the "exonerated" goes beyond just the Fives' story. The gate seems to honor this. And if their story continues to bring attention to issues of systemic bias and even more pointed reforms against corrupt prosecutors and coerced confessions, then I'm all for it.

(* Not sure where the men are now with admitting these lesser/other crimes, but the on-the-record confessions of the robberies or assaults also gets muddied with the coerced confession of the rape. Cops were coercing confessions. But supposedly the boys confessions of the lesser crimes matched with eye witness accounts and timelines (According the the Times). While the rape confessions did not.)