#505 Jason Flom with Fernando Bermudez

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

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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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. I came from a beautiful neighborhood. Had a beautiful life.
0:38.3	I went to sleep because September 7th was the first day of my high school year.
0:42.3	I was going to be a senior.
0:44.3	At 22, I was set to start college.
0:46.3	I woke up and my life was never the same again.
0:50.3	Cops came out with guns drawn and I never saw freedom ever since after that.
0:55.0	It's like Roach Motown once you get in, you're not getting out.
1:00.0	I'm Jason Flom. Today we'll be talking to Fernando Bermudas.
1:04.0	A young man sent away for the rest of his life.
1:07.0	They arrested him and they threw away the keys. They never did another bit of investigation.
1:11.5	In 1991, Fernando Bermudez was arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old boy in Greenwich Village,
1:17.5	even though he was five miles away with his friends and had multiple Alambi witnesses who placed him far away from the scene of the crime.
1:24.1	A young lady said that I looked cute and that was enough for her to share the pictures
1:28.6	and for the witnesses to communally agree that I resembled the perpetrator.
1:33.6	He was convicted anyway and sentenced to 23 years to life in maximum security prisons in New York
1:38.6	State. This is wrongful conviction with Jason Flom.
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