Empire on Blood

3: Dwight, Poet of Evil

<p>Calvin Buari’s former protégé in the Bronx crack trade, Dwight Robinson, loved and admired Cal. But then, feeling shunned and nursing his own ambitions, Dwight charted his own course — first with guns, then with lies, and finally as an instrument of the criminal justice system.</p>

<p>In the Bronx, in the early 90s, two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.”  They lived large, wearing mink, drinking champagne, getting rich.  Then their fraught relationship fell apart, dead bodies piled up, and one accused the other of a double homicide he didn’t commit.  Or did he?  We hear from the cops, the DA, the terrified eyewitnesses, the dealer doing life, and the dealer who put him there.  They all tell their stories to award-winning journalist Steve Fishman, who has spent seven years untangling the twisted web of justice in the Bronx, and chronicling one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence.</p>