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The Case of Fernando Bermudez
📻 Episode #2
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 17, 2016
About This Episode
On August 4, 1991, at a nightclub in New York NY, some teenagers began taunting each other and words escalated to punches. When the teenagers came out of the club prepared for a fight, a man shot and killed16-year-old Raymond Blount.
The Case
On August 4, 1991, at a nightclub in New York NY, some teenagers began taunting each other and words escalated to punches. When the teenagers came out of the club prepared for a fight, a man shot and killed16-year-old Raymond Blount.
Police showed mug shots of several men to a group of Blount’s friends who initially identified a former classmate nicknamed “Wool Lou” as the shooter. After some deliberation, some of the witnesses identified 21-year-old Fernando Bermudez as the shooter. One of the witnesses later made a deal with the prosecution to identify Fernando Bermudez as the gunman in return for not being charged in the case. Fernando, who passed a polygraph examination and presented alibi witnesses in his defense, was charged and convicted with second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 23 years to life in prison.
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00:05:17“Speaker 1: right across in the Bronx where I was going to Speaker 1: go to college, And we were driving around and enjoying ourselves, Speaker 1: oblivious to anything that had happened. And at the time Speaker 1: when the actual crime occurred, we were uptown in my neighborhood,”
00:19:20“Speaker 3: That doesn't sound kosher either. I mean, there's just so Speaker 3: it was really a series of mistakes that read to Speaker 3: you that led to your both both deliberate and and Speaker 3: and accidental, but mostly deliberate. Right, Yes, so you're now Speaker 3: you get convicted. The moment of that, the jury coming”
00:34:21“Speaker 1: I realized it was bluetooth technology. The fashion had changed Speaker 1: from baggy pants to now skinny jeans. Besides that, I Speaker 1: was just scared because they didn't even feel like I Speaker 1: had permission to be outside. Speaker 3: I was, I was psychologically Were you worried that they”
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