The First Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of National District postponed until March 3 at 9:00 am the appeal filed by Gabriel Villanueva.
The hearing was postponed at the request of the plaintiff to withdraw a opposition appeal that they had filed in the Supreme against a court decision that had declared the appeal out of time.
After analyzing it, he rectified his decision, acknowledging that it was presented within the legal term.
It is recalled that Gabriel Villanueva is sentenced to 20 years for the death of Celea.
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Judgment
Gabriel Villanueva He was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering the young Andreea Celea in 2018.
The sentence was handed down by the judges of the Second Collegiate Court of the National Districtwho indicated that the defendant must serve the sentence in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center of San Pedro de Macorís, which must pay compensation of five million pesos.
The accusation instrumented by the Prosecutor’s Office establishes that the acts committed by Gabriel Villanueva Ohnona constitute the criminal types of homicide, gender violence and intrafamily, crimes provided for and sanctioned in articles 295, 304 and 309 numerals 1, 2 and 3 literal E, of the Penal Code, modified by Law 24-97.
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About the fact.
According to the evidence presented by the National District Prosecutor’s Office, the accused threw his girlfriend into the void from the eighth floor of a hotel in the capital, and then fled the scene of the crime.
Villanueva was in preventive detention at the San Pedro de Macorís Correction and Rehabilitation Center.
