Legal Opinion
United States v. Ortiz-Graulau
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 20, 2008No. 06-1768PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
Between November 2004 and May 2005, Harold Ortiz-Graulau, then age thirty-eight, carried on a consensual sexual relationship with a fourteen-year-old female identified as SMN. Shortly after the two became acquainted, SMN dropped out of the ninth grade and moved into Ortiz’ home; for the next six months, Ortiz and SMN lived together as a couple. Despite the large age difference between the two, their relationship was at the time legal under Puerto Rico law. 1
On several occasions Ortiz brought rolls of film to be developed at a Walgreens drugstore in San German, Puerto Rico.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Cheek v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Gonzales v. RaichSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
- United States v. MalaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
- United States v. Rivera-RosarioCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2002
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3Cited by27 opinions
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- United States v. McCallaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2008
- Ortiz-Graulau v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2014
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