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National District judge Danilo Amador Quevedo has fixed the date of 30 May 2017 for the preliminary hearing into the former judges Awilda Reyes Beltré and Francisco Arias Valera, who are accused of judicial misconduct and violations of ethic codes. The Judicial Branch Council (CPJ) dismissed Reyes Beltré and banned her from working for the State for five years.
She was a judge in the fourth Courtroom of the Penal Trial Court in the National District but resigned in the middle of a disciplinary hearing having been accused of receiving bribes to allow the ex-councilor for Pedro Brand, Ericson de los Santos Solís, to go free.
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El Nuevo Diario
24 May 2017
