Brothers Espaillat Return to Court on Jet Set Case

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The defense of Antonio and Maribel Espaillat rejected on Friday the request to requalify as voluntary homicide the facts related to the collapse of the roof of the Jet Set discotheque, arguing that the magnitude of the tragedy, which left 236 dead, does not in itself prove that the accused knew and accepted the possibility of a fatal outcome.The lawyer Miguel Valerio based his opposition on the principle of legality and the provisions of the Pen…

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Santo Domingo. – “Did he want the roof to fall?” With this question, lawyer Miguel Valerio, a member of the defense of Antonio and Maribel Espaillat, questioned the request to aggravate the criminal classification of the Jet Set case by means of the figure of the eventual dolo, arguing that it has not been shown that his defendant knew [...]

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Santo Domingo.- The defense of the brothers Antonio and Maribel Espaillat rejected this Friday that the penal qualification of possible dolo or voluntary homicide be applied to the case that is known to him in the Fourth Criminal Chamber of the District... Read more › The entry Defense of brothers Espaillat rejects change qualification for eventual dolo was first published in Remolacha - News Dominican Republic.

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The lawyer Jorge Luis Polanco, a member of the defense of the Espaillat brothers, said this Friday that an audio in which Maribel expresses concern about whether one of the plafones fell to a visitor of the discotheque shows that he was interested in the safety of the clients and contradicts, in his opinion, the possibility of attributing any harm to them in the case of the tragedy of the Jet Set.