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Orlando Colón Leyro

Era:1930s
State:Puerto Rico
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Biography

The captain of the Mayagüez Cadets was arrested, imprisoned and tried after the 1937 Ponce massacre on riot, murder, weapons and assault-to-murder accusations. Dávila Marichal reports complete acquittal of the Nationalist defendants after a three-month trial. Trial length is not a custody total and no exact discharge day is inferred. Source: José Manuel Dávila Marichal, Organizando la revolución: El Ejército Libertador del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico y la insurrección nacionalista de 1950 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid doctoral thesis, 2020), physical/printed page 195–197; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Charges: Riot, murder, carrying weapons and assault with intent to murder
Sentence: The captain of the Mayagüez Cadets was arrested, imprisoned and tried after the 1937 Ponce massacre on riot, murder, weapons and assault-to-murder accusations. Dávila Marichal reports complete acquittal of the Nationalist defendants after a three-month trial. Trial length is not a custody total and no exact discharge day is inferred.
Convicted: No