Legal Opinion
Rivera v. Rhode Island
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 22, 2005No. 04-1568PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
In May 2000, fifteen year old Jennifer Rivera was shot dead in front of her house in Providence, Rhode Island, to stop her from testifying at a murder trial that she saw Charles Pona, the defendant in the trial, fleeing from the scene of the murder of Hector Feliciano in August of 1999. Her death has been avenged in one sense: Charles Pona, who ordered her murder, was convicted of her murder in state court. Charles Pona was sentenced to life plus twenty years.
Iris Rivera, Jennifer’s mother, seeks to avenge her daughter’s death in another sense. She filed a federal lawsuit…
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