When separating a Seven Judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), in April 2019, including Miriam Germán Brito, the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM), argued that he attended to a clamor of “multiple sectors of society” that demanded the renewal of that high court.
In his minutes of the meeting of April 4, 2019a month after the interviews with the magistrates, the CNMmostly formed by the current opponent Dominican Liberation PartyHe argued that he could not “be indifferent” to the claims of the society that manifested “the existence of a degree of dissatisfaction and distrust” about the development of the Judiciary.
In addition to Miriam Germánthat by then she was president of the Second room of the SCJalso marginalized Esther Agelán Casasnovas, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, Juan Hiroito Reyes, José Alberto Cruceta Almánzar, Robert Placencia Álvarez and Sara I. Henríquez Marín.
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Germán He submitted like the others nine judges that they had already fulfilled seven years In the high court, three of which were ratifiedwith the interest of continuing in the judiciary.
However, its interviewrather than to assess his long care CNMwhen one of its members, the attorney general of that time, Jean Alain Rodríguezhe questioned his honesty.
The magistrate had made two years before criticism to the file of the bribes of Odebrecht, submitted in the management of Rodríguez, and even came to predict that the future of a possible conviction in that case “was not hopeful” unless the Public Ministry strengthened the evidence. The process concluded last year with the acquittal of all accused.
“Multiple sectors have demanded the renewal of this high court as a way of relaunching the Judiciary and moving towards a new stage of reforms”CNM of 2019
Criteria for evaluating
He Article 33 of the Organic Law of CNMnumber 138-11, establishes that to evaluate the judges of the SCJ This organ must take into account “its integrity, public image, intellectual reputation, professional skills, analysis capacity, labority” and their academic competences.
Also the care and efficiency of the magistrate evaluated in the cases assigned, “and will be based on support the Performance reports that in accordance with the Judicial career law They are presented by the Presidents of the Salas about each member judge; those of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice on the presidents of each Chamber and those of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice prepared by their peers. “
In line with the Article 181 of the ConstitutionLaw 138-11 also provides that, when a Judge from the High Court, the CNM “You must support your decision.”
The Council chaired by the former president Danilo Medina He chose in that year 2019 the current president of the SCJ, Luis Henry Molina Peña And as judges to Vanessa Elizabeth Acosta Peralta, Samuel Arias Arzeno, Anselmo A. Bello Ferreras, Napoleon Ricardo Estévez Lavandier (current president of the Constitutional Court), to María G. de los Reyes Garabitito Ramírez, to Justiniano Montero Montero, to Nancy Salcedo Fernández and Rafael Vásquez Goico.
The ratified They were the judges Francisco Antonio Jerez MenaFran Euclides Soto Sánchez and MANUEL RAMÓN HERRERA CARBUCCIA.
It is not ready
He minutes with the argument that the current one used National Council of the Magistracy To disconnect the judges last Friday Pilar Jiménez OrtizManuel Alexis Read Ortiz and Moisés Ferrer Landrón, he is still working “, was reported to Diario Libre.
When it is concluded, the minutes will be published in the Web portal of the CNM.
