Rafael Ortiz Pacheco

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

Rafael Ortiz Pacheco was a member of the Cadets of the Republic, the youth corps of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, and was indicted with Pedro Albizu Campos in the 1936 federal seditious-conspiracy case following the assassination of Insular Police Chief Francis Riggs. Unlike his co-defendants he does not appear in the verdict list of the appellate opinion (Albizu v. United States, 88 F.2d 138), so his conviction is not confirmed by the court record, though secondary accounts place him among the defendants.

Case

Charges: Seditious conspiracy — conspiring to overthrow United States authority in Puerto Rico; named in the federal indictment of April 3, 1936
Arrested: Apr 3, 1936
Sentence: Not documented Charges as recorded: Seditious conspiracy — conspiring to overthrow United States authority in Puerto Rico; named in the federal indictment of April 3, 1936 (after the assassination of Insular Police Chief Francis Riggs)
Convicted: Indicted and prosecuted; his conviction is not confirmed in the appellate record (he is absent from the verdict list of Albizu v. United States, 88 F.2d 138)

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