A new setback for the former president Pedro Castillo. The Constitutional Court (TC) rejected the appeal presented by his legal defense that aimed to achieve his freedom within the framework of the process being followed against him for the coup d’état of December 7, 2022.
Castillo faces a request from the Prosecutor’s Office to be imprisoned for 34 years for the alleged crime of rebellion.
The sentence of Constitutional Court It was adopted by a majority and is endorsed by judges Luz Pacheco, president of the TC, Helder Domínguez, Francisco Morales, Manuel Monteagudo, César Ochoa and Pedro Hernández.
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However, Judge Gustavo Gutiérrez Ticse issued a singular vote pointing out that when Pedro Castillo was arrested in flagrante delicto, he was not made available to the Congress of the Republic for the lifting of his immunity from arrest.
The TC ruling also refers to the fact that the lawsuit filed requested the release of Pedro Castillo’s former Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres, which is not appropriate since he is not currently free.
This is not the first time that the Judiciary rejects an appeal presented by Pedro Castillo, who is currently serving 36 months of preventive detention in the Barbadillo prison.
On Saturday, the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court declared unfounded the appeal filed by the former president to revoke the resolution issued by Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley, on May 21, in which he declared the annulment of the criminal process inadmissible. against him for the failed coup d’état of December 2022.
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