Raymond Soto Dávila

AKA: Raymond Soto Davila; Raymond Soto; Raymond Soto-Davila
Released
Date of birth:1948
Age:78
Era:1980s
State:New York
Support
Comité Unitario Contra la Represión (CUCRE) Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña
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Biography

Raymond Soto Dávila is a Puerto Rican independence activist and historian associated with CUCRE and the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña. He was confined for civil contempt after refusing to comply with a federal grand jury investigation, including months at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.

Case

Charges: Civil contempt for noncompliance with a federal grand jury — not a criminal conviction for the acts being investigated
Released: Sep 25, 1983
Sentence: The proceedings followed December 1982 subpoenas seeking identification exemplars and participation in a lineup. Contemporary April 1983 reporting places him in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center; August testimony again identifies him as imprisoned. Torres Maldonado’s source-cited history records almost ten months of confinement and release on September 25, 1983, when the grand jury period was not renewed. The exact arrest and custody-entry dates remain unverified; subpoena and opinion dates are not entered as arrest dates.

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