Regarding the lawyer who killed a man whom he allegedly caught stealing from his residence in the Montenegro community, San Francisco de Macorís, Duarte province, brings up what the Penal Code regarding the self defense.
He preliminary report establishes that the legal professional Sunday Contin shot dead the alleged assailant Andrelfi María Guzmán, at a time when he entered his residence in the company of two others, who managed to escape aboard a white SUV. The incident occurred after 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15.
According to the Penal Code Dominican, in its article 328, “there is no crime or offense when the homicidethe wounds and the blows are inferred by the current need of the self defense of himself or another.”
In this regard, the article 329 raises which cases are considered to be in current need for self defense.
“When it is committed homicide or are inferred woundsor hitting each other at night, rejecting the climbing or breaking of houses, walls or fences, or the breaking of doors or entrances to inhabited places, their homes or outbuildings,” he says.
It also establishes that “when the act is executed in defense of aggression by the perpetrators of the heist or looting committed with violence”.
The fact
According to the report preliminary issued by the National Policehe lawyer Sunday Contin resulted with a gunshot wound and is receiving medical care in a private health center in the Duarte province.
According to a source, the deceased was being actively searched by the commission of several criminal acts.
