Legal Opinion
Pescatore v. Pineda
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 1, 2018No. Civil Action No. 08-2245 (RMC)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge
Frank Thomas Pescatore, Jr., was working as a geologist in the Republic of Colombia in 1996 when he was kidnapped, held for ransom, killed, and eviscerated in an effort to take "life like" photos to support ransom demands. The perpetrators were members of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a group since found to be terrorists by the United States Department of State. In 2008, his family sued FARC and Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, also known as Simon Trinidad, under the Antiterrorism Act. After this Court found…
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