The Attorney General’s Office asked the Superior Court of Bogotá Revoke the ruling that former president Álvaro Uribe sentenced to 12 years in household prison (2002-2010), alleging vices in the test evaluation.
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“Respectfully, I request from the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá (which) revokes the judgment of first instance issued by the 44 Criminal Court of the Circuit with Bogotá Knowledge Function, in the aspects that were subject to dissent“, argues the appeal, signed by the attorney Bladimir Table.
Uribe, founder and leader of the right -wing party Democratic Center, He became, on July 28, in the first former president of Colombia to be criminally convicted, After Judge Sandra Heredia, of the 44th Criminal Court of the Circuit of Bogotá, found him guilty for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action in a case that he himself began in 2012.
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Heredia’s judgment, that Uribe’s defense has already announced that he will appeal, argues that in the so -called ‘Century trial’ it was shown that the former president, through lawyer Diego Cadena, He tried to bribe former prisoners to retract from the alleged links of Uribe with paramilitarism that fought the guerrillas in the Colombian armed conflict.
However, in the appeal of the Attorney General disseminated by local media, the delegate of the Public Ministry argues that Heredia’s ruling lacks “strong evidence that distorts the presumption of innocence and presents several evidence“
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“The errors in the appreciation of the test, mainly the incorrect objective observation of the same, led to the improper application of the figure of the determination“Against Uribe, he says One of the conclusions of the resource, of 81 pages.
Marches in favor of Álvaro Uribe.
AFP
Legal doubts about the conviction to Uribe
According to the table, It is not legally proven that Uribe has determined the lawyer to seek paramilitary prisoners, As supported by the prosecutor of the case, which was welcomed by Heredia.
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“It was not established beyond any reasonable doubt that former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez had the degree of knowledge required to attribute the alleged responsibility as a determinant of each of the accused events. The first instance judgment did not deal with examining this core aspect in detail for each of the episodes examined“He added.
In addition, the resource indicates that Calls between Uribe and Cadena, endorsed by the judge as evidence in the process, should be discard as defended by the former president’s defense.
Heredia gave the defense of Uribe Term until August 13 to present the appeal to his conviction before the Superior Court of Bogotá.
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This case began in 2012, when The ex -president sued the Supreme Court of Justice for alleged manipulation of witnesses to the congressman of left Iván Cepeda, that at that time he prepared a complaint in the Senate against him for his alleged links with the paramilitaries.
Contrary to what Uribe imagined, the Court decided not to investigate Cepeda and opened an investigation to him for manipulating witnesses so that they did not declare against him.
Marches in favor of Álvaro Uribe.
EFE
