HE The Community’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) confirmed the sentence fifteen and a half years in prison the only defendant convicted Shot dead of a man in El Campello On September 9, 2019, according to the decision announced this Wednesday. The other two defendants took the stand for this crime, but both were acquitted by the court. popular jury that he did not think his involvement in the events had been proven. While the jury could not conclude that the defendant was financially responsible for the shootings, they saw evidence that he was involved in the crime. This fact resulted in the minimal use of penalties in his time.
LTo TSJ Law and Criminal Division It upheld the 15-and-a-half-year sentence that the Alicante District Court handed Luis Francisco B., 46, the sole defendant found guilty by the popular jury at the first trial. The Supreme Court thus dismissed the objection made by the defendant’s defense, realizing that the “rationality” of the large number of incriminating evidence that the popular jury had taken into account to render a guilty verdict was “not dismissed because the inference was arbitrary or unreasonable.” TSJ, the jury it was not based on mere supposition and supports the assessment of the evidence against the accused.
The Alicante Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison last February for committing a crime. payment of fine for murder and six months’ imprisonment and forgery of official documentsBecause the license plate of the vehicle used in the crime was stolen from another car. It also ordered an indemnity to be paid. 100,000 euro compensation in favor of the deceased’s son.
The court thus applied the guilty verdict given by a popular jury. instead he cleared two other defendants of the same crimes. The jury considered it was proven that third parties were involved in the murder, but noted that none of the other defendants were. The cause of the crime reckoning for drug trafficking. The investigation alleges that the defendant was selling drugs to other drug traffickers who hired hitmen to kill him.
Facts are back September 9, 2019while the accused was traveling from Madrid From Collado Villalba to El Campello with a vehicle bearing the license plate of another vehicle that was previously stolen.
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The prisoner stayed in a rented house in the aforementioned town of Alicante and five days later went to the vicinity of the victim’s house on Calle with unidentified third parties. El Campello Mayor Josep Poveda Verdú next to Villa Marco shopping center From Muchavista beach.
They were waiting for him there, and when he appeared walk your dogthe accused or an unidentified third person chased after him and, surprisingly and unexpectedly, shot him twice in the head with a pistol from the back. i killed him right away.
The Supreme Court upheld the sentence given by the Alicante Court for both murder and document falsification. for placing false plates in the vehicle used in the commission of the crime.
“Confession of guilt Did not respond solely to the assumptions or tricks of the Jury Tribunal. On the contrary, the presumption of innocence (…) is legitimately undermined by evidence or circumstantial evidence, to the extent that there is more than one incriminating evidence and there is a clear and direct link (…) between such evidence and the conclusion that gives rise to such evidence. guilty of him.”, citing TSJCV judges in the appeal decision.