Ortega judge Edén Aguilar, faithful servant of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, violated the right of Monsignor Leonardo Urbina to appoint a trusted lawyer by reassigning public defender Jennifer Elieth Hernández Granera, the same judicial official who represented him in the first hearing where the accusation of sexual abuse was accepted in real competition with the crime of rape of minors under 14 years of age and in ideal competition with the crime of psychological injuries to a minor under 12 years of age.
«Instead of Judge Edén Aguilar asking Monsignor Fawn UrbinaWho did you designate as your lawyer? Just as he had recognized that right that he would make effective at the hearing scheduled for 07/29, but now he cancels the hearing and does not allow him to choose,” Yader Morazán, a lawyer specializing in the administration of justice and human rights, denounced on his Twitter account. .
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The Sandinista lawyer and private defender of the priest was Harry Valle, a jurist adept at the ruling party. Valle resigned from taking the case after the hearing on July 20 where Monsignor Leonardo Urbina was sent to trial for this Friday, July 29, but the process was suspended by Judge Edén Aguilar, according to documentation released by Morazán on the social network.
“Given the diversity of approaches of the relatives of the accused, in relation to the defense exercise, controversy is denoted in the proposal of the private technical defense for the inmate José Leonardo Urbina Rodríguez and that this situation is also coincident with the discrepancies and the lack of payment for professional service fees warned by the former private defender, Mr. Harry Antonio Valle Palacio, ”says the letter disclosed by the former judicial official.
According to the court, this situation places the accused, Monsignor Leonardo Urbina, in the need to address “the protection of his human rights, in this case, his guarantee of technical defense under equal conditions” and for this reason he assigned to the same public defender who accepted the accusation against the priest in the first hearing.
They reject trusted lawyer
Morazán, also a former official of the Judiciary, assured that it is striking that Judge Edén Aguilar has accepted that Monsignor Leonardo Urbina appoint a lawyer of his trust on July 22 after the resignation of his private defender. Only three days later he retracted his decision to impose a lawyer from the State of Nicaragua.
“What is striking is the sudden change of the judge, after recognizing it as a right, which means that he is not unaware of the law, but rather that his arm was bent and he does not want to run the same risk of dismissal for disobeying as someone else. his former colleague Carlos Silva Pedroza,” he said on his Twitter account.
“His suspicious retraction is made in contradiction to the same resolution that he had already issued. Same with which I agree, because she grants three days for the defendant to name another lawyer as a result of the resignation made by Harry Valle. That the criminal proceedings are oral and contradictory, and in the event of encountering any doubts such as the one expressed in the resolution of July 25, he would have acted as he had planned, facing the person most interested in his defense, as He is the father,” he added.
Morazán reminded the court that the appointment of a defense attorney of the defendant’s choice is an exclusive and prevailing right of Monsignor Leonardo Urbina and not of the judge hearing the case. «What is done to you is an act of communication and in subsidy it is up to you to resolve», he affirmed.
