Legal Opinion
Marta Ruiz A/K/A Marta Ruiz Romero v. Generoso Gonzalez Caraballo, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 2, 1991No. 90-1468PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this case, there was evidence that plaintiff-appellee Marta Ruiz Romero (Ruiz), a thirty-six year old female in her thirty-seventh week of pregnancy, was beaten by Generoso Gonzalez Caraballo (Gonzalez), a police officer, on a public street in San Juan. Gonzalez’s fellow officer, Samuel Fontanez Berberena (Fonta-nez), stood by and, when requested, handcuffed the plaintiff. Ruiz was then thrown face down onto the floor of a nearby police cruiser and transported to the stationhouse by her attackers. She was hit several more times while in transit.
When Ruiz arrived at the…
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