The judge of Special Instruction of the Third Courtroom of the Penal Chamber of the Appeals Court of the National District, Ysis Muniz, has reserved her decision for 6 August, in the case of the request by Judge Margarita Olivo, for the definitive dismissal of her complaint against District Attorney Yeni Berenice Reynoso to be revoked. The magistrate took the decision after three hours and fifteen minutes of debates between the parties in a closed-door hearing, where Reynoso appeared and Cristo was absent because she was out of the country. The lawyers for the magistrate Carlos Balcacer and Pedro German asked the judge to accept the petition and order the expansion of the pursuit of the investigation that supports the complaint and the civil suit, given that there is sufficient merit for continuing the investigation that the trial demands.
Balcacer said that an insult to a judge is not protected by immunity, as the Justice Department is claiming, in his judgment. The District Attorney, who was assisted by her attorneys Jose Lorenzo Fermin, Laura Acosta Lora and Nassef Perdomo, said that she was not repentant for her actions. “And if by complying with the laws I am here, I am here with a lot of honor and dignity.” She said she felt that this was an issue of law that is linked “to something that is a legitimate complaint, which is that corruption must be punished.” The general prosecutor of the Court of Appeals, Bienvenido Ventura Cuevas, asked the court to ratify the dismissal of the case.