Juan Hernandez Valle

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1950s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
6 Years
Support
Puerto Rican Independence Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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Biography

Juan Hernandez Valle was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass trial that followed the March 1954 attack on the United States House of Representatives. The government charged Nationalist organizers with seditious conspiracy as part of an alleged campaign to end United States rule in Puerto Rico by force. A jury convicted Juan Hernandez Valle in 1955, and the court imposed a prison sentence of 6 years.

Case

Charges: Seditious conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 2384
Sentenced: Apr 22, 1955
Sentence: 6 years in federal prison
Judge: John F. X. McGohey (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York)
Convicted: Yes

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