United States v. Anthony T. Santos, Anthony C. Cepeda, Tito Naputi, David Lujan, Vicente M. Santos, Pedro Q. Salas, Juan Q. Salas

Appellants, correctional officers and supervisors at the Guam Territorial Prison, were convicted of depriving certain prisoners of their civil rights in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242 and of being accessories after the fact, 18 U.S.C. § 3. Appellants were sentenced and then filed timely notices of appeal.

The facts of this case are in some dispute but may be summarized as follows. On Sunday morning, February 29, 1976, eleven prisoners at the Guam Penitentiary refused to immediately return to their cells after religious services. These prisoners then barricaded themselves in the “North Dormitory”…