DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

In a pivotal ruling, three judges Gisselle Méndez, Tania Yunes and Jissel Naranjo of the First Collegiate Court of the National District confirmed the 20-year sentence to Argenis Contreras for the voluntary homicide of university professor Yuniol Ramírez, whose death occurred on 12 October 2017. Dissenting judge Tania Yunes argued that Contreras should have been convicted instead as a co-author of the crime.

Yuniol Ramirez was a lawyer and professor at the state university UASD. His corpse was found tied by a chain to a block in a stream in Hato Nuevo, Santo Domingo West.

In the verdict, the judges said that it was determined that Yuniol Ramirez and Argenis Contreras were the only persons in the interior of the vehicle when Ramirez received the bullet that caused his death.

The judges sentenced Argenis Contreras as the material author of the kidnapping and homicide...