2 Cubans Found Not Guilty of Leading ’84 Prison Riot
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Two Cubans were acquitted Thursday of charges that they led a 1984 riot among hundreds of Cuban inmates awaiting possible deportation at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.
A federal court jury returned not guilty verdicts for Jose Hernandez Mesa, 34, and his former brother-in-law, Leonel Hidalgo Diaz, 23.
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