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Florencio Romero

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1910s
State:Puerto Rico
Time Imprisoned:
5 Years 1 Month
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Florencio Romero was from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Florencio Romero began serving a prison sentence on May 6, 1918. He was sentenced to four years in prison for "attempting to form an anti-militarist league."

The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a sentence imposed March 28, 1918: Four years at Atlanta and a $200 fine. Commuted March 3, 1919 to expire April 1, 1919. A pardon, commutation, nominal expiration or parole eligibility is not itself evidence of the day of physical release; the imposed or reduced term is not a measured time served.

Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners, 1921 Senate hearings, printed page 180.

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Arrested: May 6, 1918
Sentenced: Mar 28, 1918
Incarcerated: May 6, 1918
Released: June 1923
Sentence: Four years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction).