His repeated confrontations with the members of the room, his intransigent position and his lack of respect in each hearing foreshadowed this unfortunate outcome. Raúl Noblecilla, the lawyer defending Betssy Chávez in her trial for rebellion, was suspended for two months from professional practice and excluded from six hearings.
The Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court imposed this sanction on him after it was detected that he presented allegedly false medical documentation to justify the absence of his client, former prime minister of the imprisoned former president Pedro Castillo.
At the hearing last Thursday the 23rd, Noblecilla presented a medical report attributed to the Chorrillos clinic, which detailed alleged health complications of Chávez.
However, when requesting verification, the court received a forceful response: the clinic, through its general manager Víctor Grández, denied having treated the former Chief of Staff on October 20 and specified that the alleged doctor who signed the report has not worked there for years. He also warned that the recipe books and stamps used did not correspond to their official models.
Given the evidence, the referee concluded that the lawyer engaged in negligent conduct, intended to hinder the development of the trial, violating ethical principles of the profession such as probity and procedural good faith. The court’s decision states that the lawyer violated the duties of the Organic Law of the Judiciary.
After being informed of the sanction against her, Noblecilla asked to speak and, far from apologizing, she reiterated her verbal attacks against the judges and rejected the trial. In his heated speech he repeated that those conducting the hearing were provisional magistrates.
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