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Release Ordered For Wrongfully Convicted NYC Man

by The Associated Press

text sizeAAANEW YORK November 19, 2009, 04:36 pm ET

A New York City man imprisoned for nearly 20 years for a now-overturned murder conviction will go free while he waits to learn whether he has to serve time for an unrelated drug case.

A federal judge in suburban White Plains on Thursday ordered Fernando Bermudez released without bail on the drug case until June. That gives his lawyers time to try to persuade officials to credit his 27-month sentence as time served.

Defense lawyer Barry Pollack expects Bermudez to be released in the next few days.

A state judge last week declared Bermudez innocent in a deadly 1991 shooting in Manhattan. Bermudez was convicted the next year.

The judge said a key witness lied and others influenced one other into implicating Bermudez.

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