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VELAZQUEZ-MARTINEZ v. COLON

Civil No. 95-2193 (JAF).

961 F.Supp. 362 (1997)

Dinorah VELAZQUEZ-MARTINEZ, individually and as mother with patriae potestas over her minor daughter, Nora Angeli Orta-Velazquez; Myriam Fernandez De Jesus, and Irma Orta-Fernandez, Plaintiffs, v. Joseph COLON, individually and as Administrator of the Corrections Administration; Ricardo Soto Torres, individually and as Commandant of the Custody Officers at the Bayamón 1072 Institution, and John Doe and Richard Roe, unknown custody officers, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

March 31, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Santiago-Villalonga, Andress Guillemard-Noble, San Juan, PR, for Plaintiffs.

Luis F. Del Valle-Emmanuelli, Mabel Ramon-Millian, Dir., Fed. Litigation Div., Pedro R. Pierluisi, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Com. of P.R., San Juan, PR, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

FUSTE, District Judge.

On December 19, 1994, an inmate in the Bayamón Correctional Institution, Angel Enrique Orta-Fernández, was killed at the hands of other inmates. Plaintiffs, his wife, Dinorah Velázquez-Martínez, on her own behalf and on behalf of their minor daughter, Nora Angeli Orta-Velásquez, the deceased's mother, Miriam Fernández de Jes&...

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