Perocier-Morales v. United States

AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER

DANIEL R. DOMÍNGUEZ, District Judge.

Petitioner Elias Perocier-Morales was working as an on-duty San Juan Municipal Police Department officer on July 20, 2003. In the early morning hours, Petitioner responded. to a report over the police radio that an individual, subsequently identified as José Antonio Rivera Robles, had injured a fellow police officer and stolen the officer’s police vehicle. Other officers had located Rivera Robles at a gasoline station and were arresting him when Petitioner arrived on the scene. While Rivera Robles was lying face down on the ground…