East New York is a notoriously tough Brooklyn neighborhood and in the 70s, 80s and 90s it

had an equally corrupt local precinct, the 75th or 75th precinct, home to many of the

wrongful convictions of notorious NYPD detectives Luis Carcella and Stephen Camille.

On March 28, 1998 Nelson Cruz was out in the neighborhood with some friends celebrating

his 17th birthday over Chinese food when they heard gunshots close by.

So close in fact that they saw the police swoop in immediately to get the situation under

control.

A police officer had seen the actual muscle flash of the gun in Eduardo Rodriguez's

hand.

Trevor Vieira, a man in his mid-20s known for stick-ups, was lying dead in the street.

Rodriguez was brought in for questioning where Carcella and Camille turned what should

have been an open and shut case into another horrific wrongful conviction.

With the false testimony of a man who didn't even know police were unseen to arrest Rodriguez

and in spite of the testimony of that uniform police officer stating that Nelson Cruz was

definitely not the shooter, Nelson was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life and if matters

couldn't get any worse, despite a mountain of new exculpatory evidence, the judge who

oversaw his most recent appeal suffers now from early onset Alzheimer's which has impaired

her ability to follow the case and set Nelson free.

This is wrongful conviction with Jason Flop.

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