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Overturned

Fernando Bermudez

Year
1992
Where
New York
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
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What the record says

Fernando Bermudez (born February 13, 1969) is a New York City resident who was exonerated in 2009 after being convicted in 1992 of the second-degree murder of a 16-year-old boy in New York City's Greenwich Village. He was sentenced to 23 years to life. In 2009, his conviction was overturned on appeal by a New York County Supreme Court justice who also ordered Bermudez released, and dismissed the charges with…

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