Legal Opinion
United States v. Angel Rios Ruiz, A/K/A Junior Rios
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 28, 1978No. 77-1127PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
The facts giving rise to this case occurred during a drug raid and mass arrest on April 9, 1975, of approximately two hundred persons at the Cuesta Vieja public housing project in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Two of those arrested, Maria Elena Cornier and William F. Pellegrino, 1 claimed that they were beaten by defendant-appellant, Angel Rios Ruiz, and a fellow police officer, Cesar A. Mercado Negron. Rios Ruiz and Mercado Negron were subsequently indicted in two counts for beating and assaulting Cornier and Pellegrino and depriving them of their constitutional right not to…
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