Legal Opinion
Díaz-Colón v. Fuentes-Agostini
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 18, 2015No. 13-2340PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
This lawsuit arises 'out of two sets of wrongful murder convictions in Puerto Rico’s courts. In each murder trial, jurors convicted a group of individuals based in large part on the testimony of a single witness, Zoé Díaz-Colón (“Díaz”). After one of the convicted individuals killed himself in prison, Diaz came forward to recant her testimony, claiming that law enforcement personnel had coerced and bribed her into giving fabricated testimony. After the Commonwealth courts subsequently vacated the convictions, and all charges against them were dropped, the wrongfully…
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