In the next few hours, it will be known whether Carlos Humberto Coy, Santa Marta’s sixth municipal criminal judge, is responsible. Whether it provides warranty control or not habeas corpus will grant temporary freedom to former senator An investigation into Arturo Char is ongoing due to allegations of voter corruption and criminal conspiracy.
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Char’s defense claims that the 120-day period provided by the law to resolve his legal situation has already expired. Although judge Marco Antonio Rueda Soto Magistrate Cristina Lombana, who presided over the case and sent a memorandum to the judge stating that their terms of office ended on February 8, 2024, rejected her colleague’s request.
As a matter of fact, a conflict was clearly visible in the memorandum published by EL TIEMPO for the first time. It’s about the Char case in the Investigation Division of the high court.
The judge wrote in a letter to the Santa Marta judge. Lombana assures that in fact the deadlines expired on January 4, and he warned about this on December 19, when a presentation was voted in the courtroom, in which it was guaranteed that the delay in the case was not due to Char’s defense.
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With three votes in favor and three against, the case was to be decided in an extraordinary assembly scheduled for January 16, but habeas corpus.
No one has yet explained why the court sent a double response to the Santa Marta judge.
In this context, TIME It was learned that Judge Lombana had sent an email in which he warned that Marco Antonio Rueda Soto was neither in charge of the case nor represented the majority’s position.
Added to this is the concept The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office filed the case within the legal period on Sunday, January 7.
There it is stated that for the Delegate Agency: At the time when the constitutional case was presented by the Public Ministry, the 120 days stated in Article 365 of Law No. 600 of 2000, as the budget for granting freedom due to the expiration of the deadlines, had expired.
“It is clear to this Agent that, by a single mathematical application, the forced passage of time without merit of the instruction can be qualified as being for reasons not attributable to the defence, and in this regard, the appeals made by the defence, may like each other It has been presented as a delay on its part, but this is not true, for it must be taken as a basis that these are rights that every person under full investigation is obliged to exercise them.s,” says the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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And it does Reference to the report provided by the Judge Verifying the Process (Lombana) stating that the adequacy of the instruction as substantially required by the norm has not been fulfilled to date.
And the letter, signed by Santa Marta legal aid attorney Mauricio Rodríguez, concludes: “The Public Ministry decides that habeas corpus should be declared admissible in favor of the plaintiff, as explained below:
(…) Mechanism ( habeas corpus) appears appropriate because at the time of the application the defendant had no other suitable means of doing so.”
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And it states The judicial vacuum currently hinders the procedural development of the higher body.
The judge is expected to rule within the next few hours.
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