The civic society watchdog group Participación Ciudadana urged that President Danilo Medina order a stop to what they call “a campaign of the Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez” against Supreme Court of Justice Judge Miriam Germán Brito in order to lend “something of credibility” to the ongoing selection of the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice. Participación Ciudadana says the process has been seriously marred since 4 March 2019, when Attorney General Rodríguez made serious accusations against the honesty of the judge in violation of the ruling for the judge assessment. These accusations have been proven to not be true and the presentation of these violated the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice assessment procedure. Nevertheless, the campaign to sully the reputation of the judge is ongoing, says Participación Ciudadana. In the Dominican Republic, the Attorney General is appointed by the President of the Republic.
Participación Ciudadana accused the Attorney General of carrying out a media campaign to promote the letters he said were anonymous, with the intention of planting doubts about the judge. Germán Brito has had a career of 40 years in the judiciary and is one of the most highly reputed judges in the country.
Participación Ciudadana says there is a Facebook page dedicated to sully the career of the judge and all our suspicions fall on the Attorney General as the mastermind of this page. “That is illegal and the president of the National Council of the Magistracy has the obligation to put a stop to this,” said PC in a press release.
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28 March 2019