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.
Approximate duration is not an exact custody counter
Torres Maldonado's printed page 177 reports almost ten months of civil confinement and September 25, 1983 release. It does not establish an exact admission day. The former 304-day and ten-month counters are removed because they turn an approximate account into false precision. The authorized official federal locator returns two registrations under Raymond Soto-Davila, both with July 17, 2001 custody endpoints. That later endpoint is not evidence of release from this earlier contempt episode and is not substituted for the source-supported 1983 release. No later prosecution or custody episode is created without supporting case evidence. Existing portrait retained.
The related 1982 federal grand-jury opinion identifies District Judge Cerezo. The historical thesis names Carmen Consuelo Vargas for the contempt proceedings; official judicial and university records identify Carmen Consuelo Cerezo and the Vargas Cerezo name. The December 1982 opinion predates contempt and supplies no prison admission date. Source.
Torres Maldonado’s source-cited account identifies Juan R. Acevedo, Pedro Varela and Judith Berkan as Soto Dávila’s defense lawyers in the federal grand-jury proceedings.
