In one newspaper commentary on the selection, Diario Libre noted that judge Maria G. Garabito was the person who, in January 2018, had accused the Attorney General of the Republic Jean Alain Rodríguez of trying to blackmail the judges in San Cristobal. The accusation was included in a letter that she had sent to the director of the Judicial Career Justiniano Montero Montero, defending an interim judge on the bench of the Tribunal for the Execution of the Sentence in San Cristobal, Katerina Arletti Rubio Matos. Rubio Matos was under investigation by the Judicial Council for having granted four-day Christmas passes for 62 inmates, which included several on drug charges, but without showing any particulars for those responsible for the return of the prisoners. Curiously, Justiniano Montero Montero was also elevated to the Supreme Court bench.
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Diario Libre
8 April 2019