A Philadelphia man is home again tonight after being released from jail. ByClaudiaVargas of NBC10 Investigators explains how a detective’s misconduct led to today’s release.
All three witnesses involved in the original case dropped their accusations against Velasquez.
Velasquez had been convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life without parole in 2012 in connection to the death of Domingo Rivera. Velasquez's case is among the 75 in connection to disgraced former Philadelphia homicide detective Philip Nordo that are under investigation by the District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit., including sexually assaulting witnesses and informants by a grand jury in 2019.For Velasquez's case, Nordo's misconduct while getting and interviewing a key witness was not shared with the defense team properly.
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