2005News

Court sends Police officers to trial

The Third Penal Chamber of the National District Court of Appeals has revoked the denial of the petition that favored former Police chief Jaime Marte Martinez and 32 other Police officers, and sent the group to stand trial. The magistrates considered that there was enough evidence to justify the probability of a conviction for breach of trust, embezzlement and misappropriation of over 100 stolen cars that the police had recovered but not returned to their owners. Judges Luis Omar Jimenez, Nancy Joaquin Guzman, Doris Pujols Ortiz, and Antonio Sanchez Mejia studied an appeal by the District Attorney for the National District, Jose Manuel Hernandez, who questioned the verdict pronounced by the magistrate of the Fifth Court of Instruction on 5 April. The Appeal Court magistrates decreed a trial motion for the accused Police officials.