Legal Opinion
Filiberto Ojeda Rios v. George Wigen, Warden, Metropolitan Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 29, 1988No. Docket 88-3057PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
Pending before me in my capacity as circuit judge is a petition by Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who is currently confined in the Metropolitan Correctional Center within the Southern District of New York. The petition seeks alternatively a writ of mandamus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (1982), or a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (1982). Petitioner has addressed the petition to me by name.
Facts
Petitioner was initially arrested in Puerto Rico on August 30,1985, after a grand jury in the District of Connecticut indicted him and others for various offenses…
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