the lawyer of Philip Santana (20), sentenced to seven in prison for the crimes of theft, damage to public furniture and frustrated arson in an inhabited place in the cathedral of Puerto Montt, asked the President for a pardon Gabriel Boric.
The events occurred in 2019, within the framework of the social outbreak. Santana was sentenced the following year by the Oral Criminal Court of Puerto Montt, while the Court of Appeals confirmed the ruling in 2021.
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The young man’s lawyer Ferdinand Lealaffirmed that “his right to defense and due process was denied, since there is no evidence whatsoever that links him to the bonfire”, collects The Llanquihue.
“The only thing that exists is a photograph where he appears taking a mesh that later appears in said bonfire. But no judge has been able to prove that he set the fire,” he added.
Likewise, he pointed out that the convicted person has a “cognitive delay” that the court did not take into consideration in the resolution.
