Finjus calls on Attorney General to appeal decisions on Bautista and Mayor
Hipolito, Abinader, the MPD and FALPO question the two sentences
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SD. The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) called upon the Attorney General of the Republic to use his legal facilities, and file an appeal of the dismissal of the charges against the Senator Felix Bautista and the mayor of San Francisco de Macoris, Felix Manuel Rodriguez. This would give the proper judicial bodies a new opportunity to comply with their mission of providing justice, without fear, favoritism or pressure by political party interests.
The foundation warned that the Supreme Court of Justice should guarantee the credibility and the impartiality of their decisions, and that their acts should be taken not only within the framework of legality and that are covered in legitimacy, but also that, in addition, they can contribute to improve the crisis of confidence that numerous surveys and recent studies indicate.
"It is noteworthy that in both cases the justice system has operated in order to impede the defendants from answering the accusations in a trial and that, within an apparent framework of legality and of respect for due process, a new opportunity for public officials and political leaders to respond for incidents of which they are accused is frustrated."
The foundation commented that since the start of the process against Bautista, and contrary to what was expected, the SCJ decided to place at the head of the case magistrate Moscoso Segarra, "a person with historical ties to the same party as the principal defendant, "when the most recommended action was that this process be directed by a career judge."
With regard to Bautista and his fellow defendants being judged in an oral, public and adversarial trial, they say that common sense would recognize the quality of the sentence, "but it worries us that the Judge of the Special Instruction has extended and recognized to unprecedented limits a series of guarantees in favor of the defendants, arguing reasons of protection of privacy, intimacy and the presumption of innocence, while not recognizing legal dispositions contained in the Special Law of Money Laundering and other similar laws."
The empire of impunity
In a press communiqué signed by the executive vice president, Servio Tulio Castaños Guzman, the Finjus says that regrettably the decisions adopted continue to strengthen the public's perception that both the internal as well as external independence of the Judicial Power is more compromised now than in the past, and that the legitimate apprehensions that they manifested over the close ties of many of the magistrates elected in December 2011 to the high courts with the political power, would lead to decisions that would deepen the empire of impunity.
The foundation warned that the Supreme Court of Justice should guarantee the credibility and the impartiality of their decisions, and that their acts should be taken not only within the framework of legality and that are covered in legitimacy, but also that, in addition, they can contribute to improve the crisis of confidence that numerous surveys and recent studies indicate.
"It is noteworthy that in both cases the justice system has operated in order to impede the defendants from answering the accusations in a trial and that, within an apparent framework of legality and of respect for due process, a new opportunity for public officials and political leaders to respond for incidents of which they are accused is frustrated."
The foundation commented that since the start of the process against Bautista, and contrary to what was expected, the SCJ decided to place at the head of the case magistrate Moscoso Segarra, "a person with historical ties to the same party as the principal defendant, "when the most recommended action was that this process be directed by a career judge."
With regard to Bautista and his fellow defendants being judged in an oral, public and adversarial trial, they say that common sense would recognize the quality of the sentence, "but it worries us that the Judge of the Special Instruction has extended and recognized to unprecedented limits a series of guarantees in favor of the defendants, arguing reasons of protection of privacy, intimacy and the presumption of innocence, while not recognizing legal dispositions contained in the Special Law of Money Laundering and other similar laws."
The empire of impunity
In a press communiqué signed by the executive vice president, Servio Tulio Castaños Guzman, the Finjus says that regrettably the decisions adopted continue to strengthen the public's perception that both the internal as well as external independence of the Judicial Power is more compromised now than in the past, and that the legitimate apprehensions that they manifested over the close ties of many of the magistrates elected in December 2011 to the high courts with the political power, would lead to decisions that would deepen the empire of impunity.
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