Legal Opinion
Bermudez v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 15, 2015No. Docket 14-1125-cvPublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
I. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff Fernando Bermudez was incarcerated 18 years for a murder he did not commit. The crime in question took place around 3:00 AM on August 4, 1991. A 16- year-old boy named Efraim Lopez was at a party at the Marc Ballroom in Manhattan, and was punched in the face by a man named Raymond Blount. Lopez told another individual about this altercation with Blount, and the parties in the case before us do not dispute that this other individual subsequently shot and killed Blount. Moreover, the parties before us no longer dispute that this other individual…
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