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Marie Haydée Beltrán Torres (born 7 June 1955) is a Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1977 bombing of the Mobil Oil Building in Manhattan that killed one person and injured several others. Torres was linked by a fingerprint on a job application she filled at the Mobil building just before the bombing.〔(Reading Eagle ), Associated Press article, dated September 8, 1977.〕 She and her husband, Carlos Torres, were members of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), which claimed responsibility for the Mobil Oil bombing and numerous others.〔(Mrs. Torres Gets Life Term For Fatal Bombing in 1977 ), ''The New York Times'', May 24, 1980〕 Supporters of Torres considered her a political prisoner. She was released on April 14, 2009.〔(Federal Bureaus of Prisons Inmate Locator )〕 ==Trial== At her trial, Beltrán Torres refused the appointment of counsel, demanded to represent herself and then informed the district court that she would neither present a defense nor participate in the proceedings. Declaring her status as a prisoner of war, she stated that the court proceedings were "illegal" and that she had "committed no crime", and demanded that her case be tried before an international court. During the trial, she declined to the legal representation she was provided, and was convicted on May 22, 1980 of placing the bomb that killed the 26-year-old Charles Steinberg and injured seven others in the Mobil Oil Building bombing.〔(Mrs. Torres Gets Life Term For Fatal Bombing in 1977 ), The New York Times, May 24, 1980.〕〔(Thousands flee skyscrapers, One Dead, 7 Hurt in NYC Bomb Blast ), Daytona Beach Morning Journal, August 4, 1977, Page 2.〕〔(The Terrorist List ), Volume 1, by Edward F Mickolus, Susan L Simmons, page 37.〕〔(Latin American Studies ), Docket No. 97-2061, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.〕 Ms Torres was one of a few FALN members who was not offered clemency by President Clinton. Clemency was offered only to 16 individuals, who had not been convicted, according to the White House counsel, of ''killing and maiming''.〔(Lawmakers Weigh In on FALN Clemency ) By George Lardner Jr., Washington Post, September 6, 1999; Page A7.〕 In August 1997, The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied her appeal to vacate her sentence. Beltrán Torres claimed she was denied her constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Haydée Beltrán Torres」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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