Legal Opinion
Velazquez-Martinez v. Colon
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided March 31, 1997No. Civil 95-2193 (JAF)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
FUSTE, District Judge.
On December 19, 1994, an inmate in the Bayamón Correctional Institution, Angel Enrique Orta-Fernández, was killed at the hands of other inmates. Plaintiffs, his wife, Dinorah Velázquez-Martínez, on her own behalf and on behalf of their minor daughter, Nora Angelí Orta-Velásquez, the deceased’s mother, Miriam Fernández de Jesús and his sister, Irma Orta-Fernández, are suing under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (1991). Defendants have filed a motion for summary judgment.
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Facts
Angel Enrique Orta-Fernández was killed on December 19,1994, by other inmates who strangled him…
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