A defendant imprisoned for 17 years for a murder his supporters insist he did not commit will get a new hearing on whether eyewitness testimony heard by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury was sufficient to convict him, a state judge has decided.
With all eyewitnesses against Fernando Bermudez having recanted and no scientific or DNA evidence existing to implicate the defendant for the 1991 murder, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice John A. Cataldo (See Profile) has ruled that he will sort through the veracity of the witnesses’ testimony and the circumstances under which it was provided to authorities.
