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The Case of Nelson Cruz
📻 Episode #189
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 17, 2021
About This Episode
On March 28th, 1998, Nelson Cruz was celebrating his birthday over Chinese food with friends when they heard shots fired down the block. Police were immediately on scene to make an arrest, yet somehow, Nelson became the target of a notorious pair of NYPD detectives.
The Case
On March 28th, 1998, Nelson Cruz was celebrating his birthday over Chinese food with friends when they heard shots fired down the block. Police were immediately on scene to make an arrest, yet somehow, Nelson became the target of a notorious pair of NYPD detectives.
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00:04:25“Speaker 3: This murder happens March twenty eighth, nineteen ninety eight, at Speaker 3: eleven fifteen at the corner of Bradford and Picking. Two Speaker 3: cops in a patrol car. Officer William Paietti actually watches Speaker 3: the man with the ponytail, who we later find out Speaker 3: is at Wardo Rodriguez firing the gun, sees the muzzle”
00:16:33“Speaker 4: help with my mother, I was getting phone numbers, and Speaker 4: with the phone numbers, I was contacting people's gathering evidence. Speaker 4: I had got about maybe two, like two or three Speaker 4: Afid Davis at first, and then my brother laid on Speaker 4: we had hire a private investigator to locate these witnesses”
00:28:16“Speaker 3: written decision, the court will enter the decision. She granted Speaker 3: the motion to reargue, which is very, very very rare. Speaker 3: She never issues a written decision. The court doesn't even Speaker 3: enter this decision, which is what has to be done. Speaker 3: So almost a year goes by and in August of”
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