Pablo Rosado Ortiz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1930s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Puerto Rican Independence Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Cadets of the Republic
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Biography

Pablo Rosado Ortiz was a member of the Cadets of the Republic, the youth corps of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. He was among the party members indicted with Pedro Albizu Campos in the 1936 federal seditious-conspiracy case that followed the assassination of Insular Police Chief Francis Riggs.

Case

Charges: Seditious conspiracy — conspiring to overthrow United States authority in Puerto Rico; named in the federal indictment of April 3, 1936 (the post-Riggs-assassination prosecution of the Nationalist Party)
Arrested: Apr 3, 1936
Sentence: Reported as ten years by Nationalist histories (the appellate opinion states no figure); transported to the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta on June 7, 1937 Verdict as recorded: Convicted on the first and third counts; conviction affirmed, Albizu v. United States, 88 F.2d 138 (1st Cir. 1937)
Convicted: Yes

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