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LOPEZ-TORRES v. U.S.

No. 88-2187.

876 F.2d 4 (1989)

Tomas LOPEZ-TORRES, Petitioner, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francisco M. Dolz Sanchez, San Juan, P.R., for petitioner, appellant.

William R. Yeomans, Dept. of Justice, with whom James P. Turner, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and Dennis J. Dimsey, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief for respondent, appellee.

Before SELYA and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges, and RE, Judge.

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant, a former Puerto Rico policeman, pursued a young man seeking to escape arrest for possessing a marihuana cigarette, and, allegedly, shot him in the back of the head. He defeated a local prosecution for murder, aided by the testimony of fellow officers. Thereafter two fellow officers admitted that the story presented at the local prosecution was fabricated and testified against him in a Civil Rights prosecution. Conviction...

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