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BUENROSTRO v. COLLAZO

Civ. No. 89-0384(JAF).

777 F.Supp. 128 (1991)

Leonel BUENROSTRO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Pablo COLLAZO, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

October 24, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francisco A. Besosa, Goldman Antonetti Ferraiuoli & Axtmayer, San Juan, Puerto Rico, for plaintiffs.

Lou Ann Delgado, Supervisor, Antonio Fiol Matta, Director, Federal Litigation Div., Hector Rivera Cruz, Secretary of Justice, Com. of Puerto Rico, for defendants.

Saldaña Rey & Alvarado, San Juan, Puerto Rico, for López-Feliciano.

OPINION AND ORDER

FUSTE, District Judge.

At 5:30 A.M. on March 29, 1988, six Puerto Rico police officers entered the apartment of plaintiff Leonel Buenrostro with neither a search nor an arrest warrant. Buenrostro was arrested in connection with a drug crime in New York. He was held for thirty-one days in horrific conditions in the State Penitentiary in Puerto Rico before the police realized that they had made an error and arrested the wrong person.

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