Legal Opinion
United States v. Jose Solis Jordan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2000No. 99-3171PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The ten issues on appeal range from the voluntariness of the defendant’s confession to “colonialism.” Except for the defendant’s assertion that, as a colonial power, the courts of this country lack jurisdiction to try a citizen of Puerto Rico who has been charged with four related federal crimes committed in this country, there is nothing unusual about the other issues except for the context in which they arise. The defendant-appellant, Dr. Jose Solis Jordan (“Solis”), is a professor of educational philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan,…
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