Biography
Carlos Noya, a leading member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña from San Juan, was a grand jury resister twice. He first served 17 months for resisting a federal grand jury investigating the clandestine Puerto Rican independence movement and was released in March 1982; then in 1983 he and Federico Cintrón Fiallo refused to testify before a Brooklyn federal grand jury investigating the FALN. After an August 1983 mistrial and an October 1983 criminal-contempt conviction, Judge Eugene Nickerson sentenced each to two years on April 9, 1984. Noya authored the movement essay "Judgment of the Grand Jury."
