LIVE | Preventive detention hearing for Pedro Castillo for coup d'état

UPDATE 11:28

Judge Juan Carlos Checkley will issue today at 5:30 in the afternoon the resolution that will define whether or not to order preventive detention against former coup president Pedro Castillo for the December 7 coup.

The hearing, in which Pedro Castillo did not participate, began virtually at 8:30 am and was suspended until this afternoon. In it, a public lawyer was assigned to the former coup leader. Meanwhile, Aníbal Torres’ lawyer assured that his sponsor could not go to prison because he was 80 years old and suffered from various health problems, including diabetes.

ORIGINAL NOTE

The hearing to define the preventive detention against the former coup president Pedro Castillowhich was supposed to take place yesterday, was rescheduled for today at 8:30 am

Yesterday morning, the lawyer Ronald Atencio announced that he was abandoning the ex-president’s defense, a maneuver that served Wilfredo Robles, his replacement in the investigation, to point out that he had not been notified of the prosecution’s accusations.

Robles even assured that his sponsor was also unaware of the prison order. However, Checkley clarified that the former head of state was notified in Diroes itself – where he is serving preliminary detention – but he refused to receive the document.

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The magistrate, even so, acknowledged that there was little time for the defense of Castillo and former Prime Minister Aníbal Torres to read the prosecutor’s request, which was presented on Tuesday around midnight, and, due to this, he set the new date for the hearing. .

The ex-governor is accused of the crimes of rebellion, conspiracy, abuse of authority and disturbance of public tranquility after announcing the illegal dissolution of Congress and the reorganization of the justice system on December 7.

Castillo Terrones resorted to this unconstitutional exit after the former adviser to the Ministry of Housing, Salatiel Marrufo, revealed that he gave him S/100 thousand in cash and in his hands, money that came from a millionaire bribe from the businesswoman Sada Goray.

Judge Checkley must resolve today whether or not to accept the request that will be supported by the Supreme Prosecutor Alcides Chinchay.

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Castillista lawyers seek by all means the release of their client. Yesterday, Raúl Noblecilla filed a habeas corpus before the Superior Court of Justice of Junín for that purpose.

In his writing, to which Peru21 agreeddenounced that “there is a violation of the right to personal liberty of José Pedro Castillo Terrones as a result of the illegal vacancy”, in reference to the decision adopted by Congress on Wednesday, December 7.

In the San Martín region, the lawyer Héctor Rabelo filed a similar appeal. In both cases, constitutional judges must decide whether to accept or reject the intentions of the lawyers.