The Supreme Court judges have delayed issuing their decision in the further appeal presented against the decision that decreed that the case had passed the statute of limitations and the complaint against the former director of the Dominican Agrarian Institute Jaime Rodriguez Guzman, his brother and his wife was no longer viable. The court presided by Mirian German Brito, the interim chief justice, took the decision to delay their decree for a future session after hearing statements from the Justice Department and the lawyers for the defendants.
During the hearing, the District Attorney for the National District, Yenni Berenice Reynoso, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Castillo and the Dominican state attorney, Laura Acosta, asked the court to revoke the decision to declare the penal case to be past the statute of limitations and in consequence order a new trial in a court that is different from the one that handed down that controversial decision.
Reynoso said that the presiding magistrate of the First Collegiate Court of the National District, Gissel Mendez, decided the case regarding the statute of limitations, but however this sort of decision was the faculty of the three judges of the tribunal, not just the presiding judge.