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11-13-2009, 05:20 PM
A 40-year old Dominican immigrant, Fernando Bermudez has been acquitted of a 1991 conviction for the murder of Raymond Blount, 16, in Greenwich Village. As reported in the New York Daily News, the judge dismissed the indictment against the father of three. Bermudez was serving a 23-years-to-life sentence at Sing Sing. Supreme Court justice John Cataldo dismissed the case on several grounds: a cooperating witness lied in court and witnesses were improperly allowed to confer about a mug shot of Bermudez before identifying him as the shooter. All have recanted.
As reported in the New York Times, since his conviction, Bermudez had married, become a father and earned two associate's degrees through correspondence programs at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY. His lawyers have spent most of that time pressing 11 appeals or motions to set aside his conviction.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/11/12/... (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/11/12/2009-11-12_fernando_bermudez_.html#ixzz0WlVZIMV2) and www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/nyregion/... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/nyregion/14retrial.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion)
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As reported in the New York Times, since his conviction, Bermudez had married, become a father and earned two associate's degrees through correspondence programs at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY. His lawyers have spent most of that time pressing 11 appeals or motions to set aside his conviction.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/11/12/... (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/11/12/2009-11-12_fernando_bermudez_.html#ixzz0WlVZIMV2) and www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/nyregion/... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/nyregion/14retrial.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)