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RUIZ v. GONZALEZ CARABALLO

No. 90-1468.

929 F.2d 31 (1991)

Marta RUIZ a/k/a Marta Ruiz Romero, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Generoso GONZALEZ CARABALLO, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vanessa Ramirez, Asst. Sol. Gen., with whom Jorge E. Perez-Diaz, Sol. Gen., was on brief for defendants, appellants.

Eric M. Quetglas Jordan, with whom Jose F. Quetglas Alvarez and Jose F. Quetglas Jordan, were on brief for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, and TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this case, there was evidence that plaintiff-appellee Marta Ruiz Romero (Ruiz), a thirty-six year old female in her thirty-seventh week of pregnancy, was beaten by Generoso Gonzalez Caraballo (Gonzalez), a police officer, on a public street in San Juan. Gonzalez's fellow officer, Samuel Fontanez Berberena (Fontanez), stood by and, when requested, handcuffed the plaintiff. Ruiz was then thrown face down onto the floor of a nearby police cruiser...

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