The Judicial Circumscription with head in Cutral Co It is the first in volume of criminal hearings per 100,000 inhabitants in the province of Neuquén (official data from 2021), and this year might run out of guarantee judges. Neither has chief prosecutor or chief defense attorney that they coordinate the work of the Public Ministries, despite the high level of conflict that it registers in the streets and houses of the jurisdiction that it covers.
The situation repeats itself slightly less intense, in the District of San Martín, Junín de los Andes and Villa La Angostura, three other cities where certain crimes generate rapid repercussions. Also in Chos Malal, although in the north of Neuquén the level of conflict is relatively lower.
The panorama was analyzed in recent days in the Superior Court of Justice, as confirmed by the member Gustavo Mazieres in his double capacity as supervisor of the Second Circumscription and president of the Council of the Magistracy, and the member Germán Busamia. “We are watching the issue with concern, and we are going to deal with it. We already thought of some alternatives»Mazieres said.
Both vowels agreed in pointing out that one of the keys will be expedite the contests of the Council of the Magistracy to cover with greater speed the vacancies that have occurred and those that are coming.
It should also be said that the challenge is also get quality human resourcesbecause on many occasions the contests were declared unsuccessful.
The situation in Cutral Co.
Last week, Raúl Aufranc was sworn in as a member of the College of Judges of the First Circumscription with seat of functions in Neuquén capital. Until then he held the same position at Cutral Co.
Very probably another judge of Guarantees from that city, Patricia Lúpica Cristo, win the contest to integrate the Court of Appealhe will also move to the capital and vacate his position.
Mario Tommasi, another of the Cutral Co judges, is close to retirement. The dissemination of a report revealing that It has been two years since he wrote the first vote of any sentence I would have ended up deciding to ask for retirement. And Laura Barbé has already registered several times in contests of the Council of the Magistracy to move to Neuquén: Until now, he has not succeeded due to a technical issue, but he will insist until he succeeds..
And there are no more judges or judges. That is to say that in the short term, the Second Circumscription would be left without judges of Guarantees.
volume of work
According to statistics published on the official website of the Judiciary, in 2021 it was the one that carried out the most criminal hearings per 100,000 inhabitantssurpassing by far the First Circumscription headquartered in the provincial capital.
To this is added that it has not had a chief prosecutor since the retirement of Santiago Terán, nor a chief defender since the death of Marisa Mauti. Both positions are being competed in the Council of the Magistracy.
Last year there was an attempt to fill the vacancy for Chief Prosecutor, but it failed because the participants did not live up to the expectations of the members of the Council.
Virtually the same contestants signed up for the new contest, in a kind of repechage to see if they raise the score. The written and oral exams are scheduled for March 29 and 30, then the personal interview will come, and if it is not declared a failure once more, the winner’s statement will be sent to the Legislature awaiting its approval. . Specific, until the second semester it will be difficult for him to assume the position.
Regarding the position of chief defender, the registration period to participate in the contest is still open (it will close on February 22), the exams will be on May 31 and June 1, so that the winner, if any, will hopefully take over at the end of the year.
From the prosecution to the courts
In recent times, a double phenomenon began to take place, the result of which is the emptying of certain positions in some specific places in the interior of Neuquén.
On the one hand, There are officials of the Public Prosecutor’s Office who compete to be a judge. For example, Maximiliano Bagnat, who jumped from the prosecutor’s office to the judiciary in San Martín de los Andes. Or Luis Giorgetti and Marco Lúpica Cristo in Neuquén capital. There is much debate regarding the reasons.
The other aspect is that It is increasingly difficult to get quality human resources to appear to fill the vacancies that open. The current composition of the Judicial Council, whose mandate expires on March 15, holds the record for declaration of unsuccessful bankruptcies.
cover charges
Some of the important charges to be covered, only in criminal law, are the following:
• Chief Prosecutor of San Martín de los Andes.
• Judge of Guarantees of San Martín de los Andes.
• Chief defender or chief of Chos Malal.
• Defender of the Rights of the Boy, Girl and Adolescent of Junín de los Andes.
And they are designated but await legislative agreement:
• Inés Gerez as prosecutor in the San Martín de los Andes case.
• Juan Manuel Narváez Barraza as prosecutor in the Neuquén case.
• Nadia Kubatov as Chos Malal Guarantees judge.
Black river He had already dealt with this issue in a report published in 2019, with the title Charges that nobody wants and deserted contests: the unexpected crisis of the Neuquén Judiciary. The focus of the debate was, at that time, the difficulty in filling the vacancy in the Rincón de los Sauces prosecutor’s office. The current owner, Rocío Gabriela Rivero, a native of Paraná, He already broke all the records of permanence.
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