TORRES v. DELGADO

Civ. No. 471-66.

259 F.Supp. 957 (1966)

Modesto Cotto TORRES, Petitioner, v. Gerardo DELGADO, Warden, Penitentiary Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Respondent.

United States District Court D. Puerto Rico.

November 8, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Juliá, San Juan, P. R., for petitioner.

Charles E. Figueroa, Department of Justice, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, San Juan, P. R., for respondent.


ORDER

RUIZ-NAZARIO, Chief Judge.

The only question before the Court in this Habeas Corpus proceeding is that the prosecutor, at petitioner's jury trial before a Commonwealth Court, commented adversely about petitioner's failure to testify at said trial, which he claims was a plain violation of the federal privilege against compulsory self-incrimination, allegedly because such comment "cuts down on the privilege by making its assertion costly", as held in...

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