[Politics] Majority vote declares the innocence of four former police officers sentenced for attempted assassination against former President Rafael Correa

[Noticias ALEJANDRO]

 

“We won, guys”, “justice was served”, “we were always innocent”, “a 30-S never again”. Those phrases were the ones released in the courtroom of the National Court of Justice (CNJ) by former police officers Luis Guanotasig, Geovany Laso, Eduardo Mullo and Jesús Jetacama after a majority decision restored their state of innocence within the process. criminal in which they were sentenced to twelve years in prison for the crime of attempted assassination against former President Rafael Correa, during the police revolt of September 30, 2010 or September 30, 2010.

Hugs came and went between the ex-uniformed persons, their lawyer, the public defender Lolita Montoya and several relatives and members of the Association of Victims 30-S, who came to hear that all the measures of a personal and real nature that were dictated in the first place were being lifted. instance on August 25, 2014 against six policemen.

Sentenced for the assassination attempt against Rafael Correa, they hope that judges of the National Court will put an end to eleven years of a ‘farce’

The majority decision was adopted by the judges of the National Court Byron Guillén and Luis Rivera; while the national judge Walter Macías did not agree with the decision issued.

Guillén and Rivera decided to declare the motions for review filed by former police officers Guanotasig, Laso, Mullo and Jetacama admissible. Guillén, the judge rapporteur of the Chamber, indicated that it was done by applying the iura novit curia principle, by the fourth cause of article 360 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

 

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