The Cadena de Noticias (CDN), Channel 37 has high expectations that the Orlando Martínez murder scase will polarize national attention. The case opens Thursday and will be televised by the news network. The Dominican CNN-type network will be giving the case of the journalist against former military the same coverage granted to the case of assassinated 12-year old José Rafael Llenas Aybar that mesmerized the nation throughout its duration. Orlando Martinez Howley was murdered in March 1975, and it has taken 22 years for the case against former military to be heard. The case hearings have been moved to the Sexta Cámara Penal del Juzgado de Primera Instancia del Distrito Nacional, the same court hall used in the Llenas Aybar case. Judge Katia Miguelina Jiménez, Judge of the Décima Cámara Penal, will preside over the hearings. The accused, that have been detained for a year and a half are: Salvador Lluberes Montás (released for humanitarian reasons — he has cancer), José Isidoro Martínez González (who is hospitalized suffering from Parkinson, diabetes and prostate cancer), Joaquin Pou Castro, former captain Rafael Alfredo Lluberes Ricart, former military Luis Emilio de la Rosa Beras and Mariano Duran, fugitive from justice. Those called to testify include former President Joaquín Balaguer; former ministers of the Armed Forces, retired generals Enrique Pérez y Pérez , and Ramón Emilio Jiménez, as well as former chief of the Army Jose Ernesto Cruz Brea.
