Legal Opinion
Tomas Lopez-Torres v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 1, 1989No. 88-2187PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defendant, a former Puerto Rico policeman, pursued a young man seeking to escape arrest for possessing a marihuana cigarette, and, allegedly, shot him in the back of the head. He defeated a local prosecution for murder, aided by the testimony of fellow officers. Thereafter two fellow officers admitted that the story presented at the local prosecution was fabricated and testified against him in a Civil Rights prosecution. Conviction followed, and immediately after sentence defendant was taken from the jurisdiction. His counsel, with the consent of…
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- James Gardner v. Joseph PonteCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
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