Supreme Court of Justice judge Miriam Germán Brito has asked Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez to remove himself from voting on her assessment on grounds that he violated the National Council of the Magistracy ruling for the assessment of Supreme Court of Justice aspiring judges. It is known that Rodríguez did not previously notify Germán Brito that he would be presenting allegedly anonymous letters to sustain accusations that she has ties to former Public Works Minister Víctor Díaz Rúa, who is accused in the Odebrecht bribes scandal, or to question the origin of her assets and that she had used her son as a front for these, or to share accusations made by judge Jose Gregorio Bautista Vargas that Germán Brito had acted to favor drug trafficker Winston Rizik.
In her recusal request, judge Germán Brito argues that Rodríguez’s assessment of her shows that he has a lack of objectivity and impartiality to carry out a fair assessment adhering to the legal framework and this should not be tolerated in a state of law. Elected to the Supreme Court of Justice in 2011, Germán Brito aspires to continue as a Supreme Court of Justice judge for five more years.
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El Dia
7 March 2019