Eduardo Roy Gates: Yenifer Paredes and Jose Medina remand postponement raises suspicions

criminal lawyer Edward Roy Gates pointed to RPP TV what causes suspicion of the decision of the judge Johnny Gomez Balboa reschedule to Sunday at 4:00 pm a virtual hearing in which he will announce his decision on whether or not to accept a prosecutor’s request for 36 months of pre-trial detention against Yenifer Paredes, the president’s daughter-in-law. Peter’s castle and Mayor of England, Joseph Medina.

“If they were going to extend it, they should have announced before 6 o’clock in the afternoon (the time when the hearings were supposed to start), because there are expectations from the population in general and, obviously, from the two detainees (Yennefer Paredes D Joseph Medina) and its protection. In fact, the judge does not give a clear message, he left a lot of doubts and suspicions, and I think this is unhealthy,” he said. Roy Gates in a programme Everything is known.

Edward Roy Gates He commented that the current context, after the judge’s decision, raises suspicions that “if the judge is pressured by the executive branch to declare the decisions of the State Department unreasonable”. There are rules of the game, which are established in the Code of Criminal Procedure. ,” he said.

“It seems to me that the judge was mistaken in not calculating the time he needed, if this is indeed the reason why it was delayed, as he mentioned,” the criminal lawyer added.

In this regard, in his personal opinion, he was surprised that the detainees’ lawyers agreed with the judge’s decision. Johnny Gomez Balboa in remodeling. He added that there can be no outcome that favors both public service and legal defense of the accused.

“In fact, there can only be one favorable outcome for one: public service or for the defense, because if they dictate reasonable preventive detention, public service you can get what you asked for, and the sponsor will end up in jail. There can be no favorable outcomes for both,” he said.

Possibility of pre-trial detention

Edward Roy Gates pointed out that there is a possibility of dictating preventive prison against the daughter-in-law of the president and the mayor Englandsince three requirements must be met: the first is the elements of a guilty verdict in which the accused appears, the second is a sentence of more than 4 years, a fact that is fulfilled, since prosecution requested 23 years in prison for alleged crimes.

“The main thing in the third element, in procedural danger, and in this part, the danger of escape and obstruction of the individual is analyzed. Walls surrendered voluntarily 24 hours later and created a risk of flight, which the prosecutor’s office took into account by making a request for his departure, since when he did not appear, it was a preliminary detention. in preventive prison the lack of urgent delivery was taken into account,” the lawyer said.

“The Public Ministry does not have a strong point in regard to the danger of obstruction, but it has in avoid danger”, he referred.

The lawyer added that if the judge decides not to issue a preventive arrest, he can demand an obstacle to leaving the country, since this is “the appearance of restrictions that the judge could well impose” even when the prosecutor’s office did not require it.