Failures of the Court in the cases against Martinelli

The lack of evidence and contradictions were the most important elements in the hearing to be held in the Supreme Court in the process by the dried food in which the president of the Republic Ricardo Martinelli have been pointed.

At the hearing, which began in the morning in order to give an extension to the fiscal magistrate Oyden Ortega, it was shown that so far there are no items of evidence needed to charge the former president.

They captured the judge Ortega in his speech during the hearing, noting that currently has no items of evidence to point directly to Martinelli in this investigation.

"In time I will ask, then you have enough evidence, setting the respective hearing to formulate charges against Mr Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal, the Central American Parliament deputy", said Ortega.

Indeed, these statements generated more doubts about the way they are handling in court records that mention the former president Martinelli. lawyer  Sydney Sitton said Ortega confirmed in his statement, the thesis of the legal team of Martinelli, on the need for attribution before filing an indictment.

These defense arguments arise when Harry Diaz, magistrate in the case of wiretapping, submitted an indictment against Martinelli without charges you have made a complaint hearing.

The greatest contradiction, according to Sitton was what the judge said guarantees, Jeronimo Mejia, noting the need for the complaint to be run times in the research phase of this record is given.

"All that the defense has long been touted, that must exist complaint charges to move to the indictment phase, becomes confirmed (in the audience) by Judge Jerome Mejia", said Sydney Sitton.

He said that there can not be two different processes within a single rule of the game, which is the Criminal Procedure Code.

“Jeronimo  Mejia  and Oyden Ortega recognize that in the adversarial process under the Criminal Procedure Code stresses that, without charge, can not pass the research phase", said Sitton.

Audience

Guarantees judge Jeronimo Mejia, refused the extension submitted by the prosecutor and judge Oyden Ortega was the main reason for this hearing.

The judge Jeronimo Mejia denied the extension, based on the judgment of the Court declaring null Article 491-A of the Criminal Procedure Code, which took two months to investigate the deputies.

Strategy

Martinelli to defend, it is demonstrated that yesterday's hearing was a strategy to divert attention from the public corruption cases in court.

Sitton said the magistrate guarantees convened a hearing to announce something we already knew many weeks in advance.

After the hearing, Rogelio Cruz reaffirmed that the conclusion of Judge Mejia shows that it had a purpose, which is to divert the attention of public opinion to the president Martinelli due to the most serious crisis of credibility that has suffered the full the Court in history.

Vices

Sydney Sitton, part of the defense of Martinelli said the hearing reaffirmed the vices that are being committed in the Supreme Court, in cases where the president Ricardo Martinelli, he said.

For this reason, they announced that they will request a new hearing to present new applications for annulment in this process.

Rogelio Cruz, part of the defense team of the former president Martinelli, explained one of these annulments in the process dehydrated food.

Cruz said the judge Ortega revised bank accounts of former President Ricardo Martinelli without authorization from the investigating judge. He said that this action contradicts the principle guarantor of the process, under the accusatory penal system, with which it is investigating Martinelli.

Cruz said that this record started badly, as it consists in writing a complaint from lawyer Gonzalo Moncada Luna on his client Giacomo Tamburrelli allegedly threatened to testify against former President Ricardo Martinelli.

Tamburrelli accusations were motivated proof that the Second Anti-Corruption Prosecutor forward a copy of this case to the Supreme Court.

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Datos

45 millones de dólares fue el monto de los contratos por la comida deshidratada.

9 personas fueron acusadas por la fiscalía; cinco exministros fueron absueltos.

Twitter

• La audiencia sobre la comida deshidratada que menciona a Ricardo Martinelli generó mayores dudas que respuestas sobre la manera parcial como se dirige la administración de justicia.

• @rmartinelli

• Magistrado Oydén Ortega reconoció hoy que NO hay prueba en mi contra en comidas deshidratadas. ¿Por qué no cierran caso? Porque Varela NO quiere.

• @marielajimene10

• @rmartinelli El quiere quedar bien con su amo. Recuerde que están cogobernando.

• @1259Orodriguez

• @rmartinelli Así es, puro "show" en la Corte, mientras el país está en un desequilibrio moral en los tres órganos del Estado.

• @Yari_FA

• @rmartinelli pregunto, si Ud. es corrupto, ¿qué es el Sr. Varela? ¿No fue vicepresidente en su gobierno? El que ve y calla también comete delito.

• @magcastill

• Pero si la directiva de la Corte es de los tres nombrados por RM. La Corte Suprema "no puede procesar a Martinelli".

• @ernestocedeno

• Mejía niega nueva petición de la defensa de Martinelli.

• @NeftaJaen19

• En palabras del magistrado Harry Díaz, tendría yo que decir: "En la audiencia de hoy contra Martinelli, estaban los magistrados del Partido Revolucionario Democrático".