To give permission confused, half naked and covered in blood to a prostitute in the middle of a field Next to the N-330 in Zaragoza’s Valdespartera district. For these events, José Manuel Calvo Ropero was sentenced to prison. 14 years in prison for a crime sexual assault and other injuries. He has now seen his sentence reduced by the only yes is yes law, and after considering his request by the Third Circuit of the Zaragoza State Court, his life in prison will be four years less.
In its decision, the state agency explains that this Zaragoza resident, defended by lawyer José Luis Melguizo, was sentenced to a lower-grade prison sentence of six to twelve years after a combination of aggravating, extenuating, and other causes. highly qualified mitigation and therefore, he was sentenced nine years in prison. However, with the enactment of the Law on Comprehensive Assurance of Sexual Freedom, the lower degree sentence has been reduced from three and a half years to seven years minus one day, so the same criteria are applied as for punishment and income is earned. They give the following punishment to the provincial judges: five years, three months and one day in prison.
The attack dates back to August 11, 2021. It was 5:30 p.m. and José Manuel Calvo Ropero was driving on Ramón y Cajal street in Pignatelli district when he stopped the victim offering sexual services. Both of them agreed to a number of conditions about the relationships they will have, such as condom use. Thereupon, the young woman got into the car to go to her home, where the attacker offered anal sex without a condom.
As previously agreed, the victim refused to engage in such sexual intercourse and subjected her to death threats.: He hit him with great force and grabbed him by the neck with both hands, strangling him and causing him to lose consciousness. In this way, he managed to overcome his active resistance and attacked him with his fists, causing a head injury.
She was also injured in her private area, where she had to enter the Mother and Child Hospital in the Aragon capital in a very serious condition. He had several surgeries there. Even the blood loss was such that necessary blood transfusion. The young woman managed to save her life thanks to her mobile phone, which she dialed 112. Luckily, the attacker did not take the phone from his hands.
He initially faced 27 years in prison, but the prosecution and his lawyer agreed to reduce the sentence to 14 years. For this Calvo Ropero had to pay. 33,176 Euro as damage repairin addition to considering the alleviation of mental illness, because he was diagnosed as such at the time of the facts.
Another sentence reduction
The first reduction in a sex offender’s sentence in Aragon dates back to just less than a month. -the elder daughter saw that the original sentence of the Zaragoza County Court was dropped. During the trial, he admitted:his head was gone“.
Marlon Joel Ponce, 27, is currently serving a ten-and-a-half-year sentence for events stretching back to the summer of 2019. The head of the Third Division of the Zaragoza Court approved his request, reducing the verdict to 9 years and 9 months in prison.
judges of the peace to “because” the provisions of the Law on the Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom. has not brought any regulation regarding the examination of finalized decisions.It is an undoubted fact that the new regulation does not make any reference to the temporary regime applicable to the new norm, and that the new regulation brings new penalty bands and reduces the minimum or maximum limits to be set in various rules”.
Emphasizing that the crime committed by Marlon Joel Ponce before the amendment of the law could be punished between the ages of 8 and 12, taking into account its continuity, the Rapporteur judge said that at that time, “they should have been applied at a lower level, but at a minimum, given the circumstances of the victim and the suffering suffered in the same way over a long period of time.” not”.