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The Case of Fernando Bermudez
📻 Episode #505
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Dec 26, 2024
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.
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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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00:05:13“Speaker 1: the car that I was going to use to go Speaker 1: to college, to drive to for my home, which was 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”
00:19:20“Speaker 5: That doesn't sound closer either. Speaker 3: I mean there's just so it was really a series Speaker 3: of mistakes that read to you that led to your Speaker 3: both both deliberate and accidental, but mostly deliberate. Right, Yes, Speaker 3: so you're now you get convicted. The moment of that,”
00:34:09“Speaker 1: were walking before I went to prison. The cell phones Speaker 1: with the size of shoe boxes, assuming you even had one, Speaker 1: you know, it was very rare, you know, And now Speaker 1: everyone had one. People were talking to themselves on the street.”
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