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Francisco A. Besosa - Our Newest Federal Judge

By Tom Lincoln

The Senate, acting pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement, voted on September 25, 2006 to confirm Francisco A. Besosa as U.S. District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico. The nomination met no opposition and the vote was 87-0. Judge Besosa will occupy the vacancy left by now Senior U.S. District Judge Juan M. Pérez-Giménez. Judge Besosa is a graduate of Brown University (A.B., 1971) and The Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1979). He also served as an Assistant United States Attorney (Civil Division) in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Puerto Rico from 1983-1986.  At the time of his nomination he directed the Litigation and Trial Practice Department at the firm of Adsuar Muñiz Goyco & Besosa, P.S.C.  He has been a member of the Committee to Revise the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and in 1993 he was appointed to the Court's United States Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel...continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on September 26, 2006 (boomark / email).