Legal Opinion
Guzman Rivera v. Rivera Cruz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 13, 1994No. 93-2164PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Hector Guzman Rivera (“Guzman”) and family members appeal a district court judgment dismissing Guzman’s civil rights action against various present and former officials of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as time-barred. We vacate the summary judgment entered by the district court and remand for further proceedings.
I
BACKGROUND
On Christmas Eve, 1987, the manager of a Domino’s Pizza establishment in Carolina, Puerto Rico, was shot and killed during an armed robbery. Eyewitnesses identified-Guzman as the perpetrator. Guzman, who was living in New York at the time,…
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