Santo Domingo.- The Third Room of the Court of Appeals of the National District annulled the sentence issued by the First Collegiate Court against those involved in the violent death of the young man David of the Saintswhile he was in the custody of the Police National in a detachment.
By annulling the sentence handed down by the judges of the First Court, the Court of Appeals ordered the opening of a new trial.
This information was offered by Waldo Paulino, the lawyer for the family of David de los Santos.
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The jurist explained that the decision of this court is due to the fact that the judges of the first degree court, They did not adhere to due process or the lawso now the case will be known facing a new trial and a different courtbut of the same hierarchy.
«In other words, those judges established in their ruling that the judges of the First Collegiate Court did not adhere to due process nor did they adhere to the law, with which they completely annulled the sentence to hear a new trial, before a different court, but of the same hierarchy, “the events that occurred due to the death of David de los Santos”explained the lawyer.
He also reported that starting monday will start running appeal period.
Death of David de los Santos was a homicide, according to death certificate
“Understand this technical defense that there will be no writ of cassation because both the Public Prosecutor’s Office, as well as the victims, civil doctors and loved ones, and the defense lawyers appealed in their entirety to the sentence[“headded[añadió
The legal representative of the victim maintained that: what is sought is for the the real ones who committed the act against David of the saints, those who are imprisoned They are the innocent, and this has been demonstrated in the sentence issued by the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District.
