The jury has found guilty the man accused of killing his partner on April 2, 2023 in the course of a supposed esoteric ritewith cruelty although with an incomplete defense of the responsibility that would correspond to him because his mental faculties were affected.
The popular jury in charge of prosecuting the crime considers proven unanimously that Gustavo DO cruelly took the life of Pedro LGE.
It is also considered proven, but by a majority, that at that time his volitional faculties were affected by a psychotic disorderso an incomplete exemption from liability could be applied, according to legal sources.
The president of the Chamber returned a first verdict to the jury this Tuesday, since in the series of questions they must answer to argue their decision there was an error that would have led to the trial being annulledaccording to sources. Once the verdict is delivered correctly at the last minute, the presiding judge of the Chamber will write the corresponding sentence in the coming days.
The defense will request a nullity of the trial
The accused’s lawyer, Alberto Ruiz de Alegría García, intends to appeal the sentence, once it is drafted and he can evaluate it, to request the annulment of the trial and that it be repeatedor alternatively that a complete defense is accepted for the accused. The reason is that at the trial the coroner stated that the accused had the powers annulled at the time of the crime due to a psychotic disorder, something that the jury has not correctly assessed in the verdict, according to the lawyer.
The Prosecutor’s Office asks for 14 years in prison for the accused for a crime of murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship, since both were a couple, and the incomplete defense of psychological alteration because the accused had a psychotic disorder and suffered “probable toxic-induced psychosis.”
The Police He found the body with several stab wounds and three screwdrivers stuck into it.and they verified that shortly before the accused had published a video on social networks in which he showed a painting with the image of Jesus Christ and said “I’m very sorry.”
The defendant’s defense lawyer requests that the complete defense of criminal responsibility be applied to him, understanding that at the time of the events, the alleged perpetrator was in a situation of mental disturbance, and requests that, after the sentence, receive outpatient and pharmacological treatment.
At the trial, the accused said that he did not remember the crime, only that he had previously argued with the victim, who did like esoteric rites, and that later she gave him a coffee and he began to feel bad and lost consciousness.
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