The First Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of San Cristóbal set for the 18th of this month the hearing of the appeal presented by the defense of María Luisa Ventura Garrido, charged with the death of Patricia Ascuasiati.
The court of appeal accepted the appeal filed by the lawyer Cirilo de Jesús Guzmán López, representative of the defendant and set the hearing for 9:00 in the morning.
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On March 2, Judge Katherine Rubio, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Villa Altagracia, imposed preventive detention on Ventura Garrido, accepting the evidence provided by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and ordered compliance at the Center for Correction and Rehabilitation Najayo Mujeres, in the province of San Cristóbal.