BERRÍOS-ROMERO v. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

No. 10-1442.

641 F.3d 24 (2011)

Benjamín BERRÍOS-ROMERO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 27, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guillermo Ramos Luiña , for appellant.

Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown , Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Irene S. Soroeta-Kodesh , Solicitor General, Leticia Casalduc-Rabell , Acting Deputy Solicitor General, and Zaira Z. Girón-Anadón , Acting Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Benjamín Berríos-Romero, a Puerto Rican prisoner convicted of second degree murder in 1993 and violation of a domestic relations restraining order in 2010, filed a federal civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleged his constitutional rights were violated by a June 25, 2008 decision of the Administration of Corrections that he was ineligible under Puerto Rican law for pre-parole community-based diversion programs.

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