Last Saturday, Judiciary He again rejected a request from the former president’s defense Pedro Castillo so that the criminal process he faces for the failed coup d’état of December 7, 2022 is annulled.
The person in charge of issuing this ruling was the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court. He declared unfounded the appeal presented by the former president to revoke the resolution issued by Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley, on May 21, in which he declared inadmissible a request for annulment of actions filed by his legal defense regarding this criminal process. .
Castillo’s lawyers questioned the actions of the Public Ministry for having scheduled numerous procedures after the police arrest of the Chotano professor to be carried out within a period of 48 hours without having cited any means of investigation and that due to the very short time it made it impossible for the defense to carry out acts to oppose the initiation of a preliminary procedure.
It is for this reason that they requested that the nullity be declared of all actions taken from the tax requirements and the judicial resolutions starting from the one in which the tax accusation that was presented against their client in this process is admitted for processing by maintaining that there was a denaturalization of the procedure, which includes the violation of the principles and guarantees that must be understood as serious defects that entail the nullity of the procedural act that originated it and the rest that follows it.
But this was not all. They also requested that Supreme Judge Checkley Soria recuse himself from continuing to intervene in this case.
For its part, the supreme court clarified that after the commission of a flagrant crime that generated serious social alarm, the immediate and personal intervention of the prosecutors after the arrest of the accused was in accordance with the 48-hour period established in the Constitution for this type. of events.
The supreme court stressed that the defense’s opposition to the numerous scheduled tax proceedings could be carried out almost immediately, as it was a matter of mere law, and with respect to those proceedings that were not carried out, it was not specified what specific harmful effects they would generate and in which there was an impossibility. of concurrence, which reduces the significance of the request for annulment. “No new facts have been introduced that warrant a reconsideration of the case, a modification to what was previously resolved,” he highlighted according to RPP.
As recalled, the Prosecutor’s Office requested 34 years in prison for Castillo, as well as his disqualification for 3 years and 6 months from holding public office by accusing him of the alleged crimes of rebellion, abuse of authority and serious disturbance of public tranquility to the detriment of the state and society as a result of this case for which he is being held in the Barbadillo Prison in Ate.
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