The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) has confirmed the sentence of the Court of Valencia that sentences the accused of murdering three girls and attempting to kill one other six to 159 years and 11 months in jail in sexual encounters with cocaine use, amongst different crimes, between June 2018 and November 2019.
The magistrates have dismissed the enchantment made by the protection, understanding that Jorge Ignacio PJ was sentenced “with proof of cost, indicative however sufficient.” “It was not arbitrary or irrational for the members of the jury to think about the details accredited primarily based on these privileged and coincident testimonies, on the totally different knowledgeable opinions carried out and different proof contributed to the case,” they conclude.
The Court has additionally dismissed the appeals of the personal accusations, through which they requested that the prisoner be sentenced to everlasting reviewable jail.
There aren’t any earlier convictions for crimes towards life
The Justice of the Peace who presided over this trial by jury within the Provincial Court dominated that it was not relevant when decoding that article 140.2 of the Criminal Code requires that different sentences have been handed down beforehand for crimes towards life in a single or a number of totally different procedures.
The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJCV reaches the identical conclusion after studying the literal content material of the authorized principle, however another way: not by the tense (“would have been sentenced”) contained within the norm however by the requirement of a “quantitative nature” that features.
Thus, article 140.2 establishes that everlasting imprisonment can be imposed on the accused of homicide “who has been convicted of the loss of life of greater than two individuals.”
In this case, the crime to which this sentence could possibly be utilized, within the opinion of the TSJCV, is the homicide of the third of the victims, MCB, and earlier than that crime, the defendant didn’t homicide “greater than two individuals”, however precisely to 2.
“Basically, and because the expression used was not “two or extra” however “greater than two”, the legislator appears to direct us to situation the hyper-aggravation to sentences for not less than three consummated crimes towards life, and in our case there are solely two”, these associated to ARS and LMVR”, causes the Court.
The magistrates admit that there’s one other doctrinal interpretation that authorizes the final of these imposed to be included in these three sentences required by the Criminal Code, however they’re inclined in direction of the one they perform by advantage of the in dubio professional reo precept, as it’s the most favorable to the punished.
In the identical method, the Chamber rejects that everlasting imprisonment may be utilized on this case in accordance with one other part of the identical article of the Criminal Code, 140.1.2º, which contemplates it when the homicide is “subsequent” to against the law towards sexual freedom dedicated on the sufferer.
The Valencian High Court reaches this conclusion, because the High Court did, as a result of primarily based on the details which have been declared confirmed each crimes “have been dedicated in unity of act and sequentially linked.”
Concealment of the stays of Marta Calvo
On the opposite hand, the Civil and Criminal Chamber has additionally confirmed the acquittal of Jorge Ignacio PJ for the crime towards ethical integrity, in relation to the concealment of the mortal stays of MCB
At this level, based on the enchantment judgment, the justification included within the jury’s verdict “doesn’t end confirming the presence of an intentional act”, a confirmed intention to trigger added ache to the dad and mom of this younger lady.
Despite this, the Chamber then specifies, “it’s one factor that the conduct constituting the kind of article 173.1 of the Criminal Code just isn’t recorded as accredited and fairly one other that the concealment of the corpse originated within the dad and mom of Dª. MCB added anguish to that already attributable to his loss of life”.
For this cause, the Court partially upholds the prosecution’s enchantment on this level and will increase the joint compensation that the convict should pay to the dad and mom of this sufferer for civil legal responsibility from 70,000 to 90,000 euros. The judgment of the TSJCV can now be appealed in cassation earlier than the Supreme Court.