Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito has questioned the ruling in favor of the defendants in the rock ash case (see DR1 Daily News 7 November 2005), and said this casts doubts upon the independence of the Judicial Branch. El Caribe indicates other cases that support his concern are the greenhouse fraud case and the Plan Renove. The Director of the Justice Department School, Aura Celeste Fernandez, said the decision by Instruction Judge Ramon Amaury Rodriguez was “alarming”. The judge dismissed the case against Hector Rene Ledesma, former Deputy Minister of Environment; Domingo Rosario, President of the company that brought the rock ash to the DR; and Arsenio Volquez, former director of the Port Authority. Environment Minister Max Puig believes that the judge’s decision is wrong and that he should not have focused on the material’s toxicity. Supreme Court of Justice President Jorge Subero Isa said he is waiting for a copy of the sentence to study the motivations and considerations the judge used, and if they are weak, he will order an investigation. Subero stated that there still are judges who act too leniently, without understanding that the rights of the community override the rights of particular individuals, and that each case must be analyzed separately.