The defense of the former Jean Alain Rodríguez He held the Anti -Corruption Attorney’s Office (PEPCA) responsible for the delay in the trial against his client, when requesting the fusion of the accused Juan Asael Martínez with that of the others incurred in the process.
He explained that the postponement for the fourth time, this Wednesday, obeyed that this merger generated an omission in the application of the article 305 of the Criminal Procedure Code (referring to the preparation of the debate).
“The Pepca has hindered and dilated this process from the first day and with more than four years of delays, they add up to us an additional delay of three months, for them to have requested and achieved the unnecessary fusion of a file of a accused that the citizen Jean Alain Rodríguez does not know and had not even seen before,” said the defense that Carlos Balcácer headed.
He said that if it had not been for that “clumsy” request for the Pepca, “we would already be advanced in the fundamental trial, demonstrating not only the falsehoods, abuses and violations of due process, but also that the heritage of the explorer Jean Alain Rodríguez is of lawful origin, as recognized by the judge of the preliminary hearing.”
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He also recalled that also the judge of the Third Court of the National District Instruction, Amauri Martínez, “determined that the delays of this process had been caused by the Public Ministry itself and the State, who, among many other clumsiness, requested unnecessary extensions, hid the fiscal folder and the evidence to discharge, to the degree of deliver order them to repair it. ”
