A judge will hear next Tuesday the request submitted by former attorney Jean Alain Rodríguez, accused in the Medusa case, to end the preventive detention that he is serving in the Najayo prison.
Two days after the defense presented the petition, magistrate Amauri Martínez, of the Third Investigating Court of the National District, set a date to meet her.
By order number 059-2023-TFIJ-00008, Martínez ordered the Court Secretariat to notify the parties in that process so that they attend the hearing.
The former prosecutor’s request is based on the fact that he has already completed the 18 months of preventive detention that the criminal procedure regulations establish as the maximum time for this measure of coercion.
If Jean Alain’s imprisonment ends…
What Rodríguez is looking for is to continue his judicial process in freedom. Since he was charged, in July 2021, under the accusation of having led a corruption network that diverted billions of pesos from the funds of the Attorney General’s Office, he has requested several to order his release from prison.
In the event that the magistrate accepts the request and ceases the preventive detention, he can order other coercive measures against Rodríguez, as has happened in other cases in which the courts granted the provisional release of the accused. Likewise, they imposed economic guarantees or the use of electronic shackles.
Apart from this, for the same Tuesday, January 17, it is on the agenda that Judge Martínez review the measure of coercion to all the accused in the Medusa case.
While the start of the preliminary hearing of this judicial process is set for February 24.
