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ADORNO LORENZANA v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

Civ. No. 800-68.

307 F.Supp. 1059 (1969)

Honorio ADORNO LORENZANA, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO et al., Respondents.

United States District Court D. Puerto Rico.

December 15, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vicente Zayas Puig (Court appointed), San Juan, P. R., for petitioner.

William Arias, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P. R., for the Commonwealth of P. R.

OPINION AND ORDER

CANCIO, Chief Judge.

This is one of those rare cases in which one word acquires such an importance that the whole controversy depends on it. In fact, the liberty of a human being, that unvaluable treasure of mankind, depends exclusively on that word, or rather, on its meaning; more properly, on the meaning to be assigned to it when read in a given context, in order to determine what a speaker had in mind when he used it and, what is still...

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