Due Process Claim Against Police Revived by Circuit
Mark Hamblett, New York Law Journal June 17, 2015 A man who spent 18 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder can pursue his claim that police identification procedures and witness coercion violated due process, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled. Fernando Bermudez, exonerated of a 1991 shooting Read More
Unjust Conviction Claim Survives State Bid to Dismiss
Joel Stashenko, New York Law Journal July 9, 2014 A judge has denied the state’s motion to dismiss Fernando Bermudez’s claim for unjust conviction for a murder of which he was found innocent after serving 18 years in prison. Court of Claims Judge Alan Marin (See Profile) rejected the state’s contention that Bermudez’s action Read More
