Reynolds ex rel. Albizu Campos v. Delgado

On September 18, 1962, Ruth Reynolds, on behalf of Pedro Albizu Campos, filed in this Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which she alleged that Albizu was restrained of his liberty under the custody of defendant Gerardo Delgado, Warden of the Commonwealth Penitentiary of Puerto Rico. The reason for such detention was the revocation by the Governor of Puerto Rico, on March 6, 1954, of the conditional pardon1 granted to the prisoner by him on *367September 30 of the previous year.2 The grounds for the alleged illegality of the imprisonment were (a) that the revocation of the pardon…