“He used the vehicle as a weapon”, the prosecutor Eugenia Titanti had said during the development of the oral trial. This Tuesday, a court imposed unanimously 8 years and 6 months in prison for simple homicide with eventual intent to Sandro Gustavo Codegoni, for running over and killing Pedro Leiva on October 23, 2021 in Neuquén.
The prosecutor had requested 9 years in prison and the defenders Marcelo Muñoz and Mario Rodríguez Gómez the minimum, 8 years. The Tribunal made up of Laura Barbé, Marco Lúpica Cristo and Luis Giorgetti, had as its main aggravating circumstance “the extent of the damage caused” to Leiva’s partner, children and grandchildrenand as mitigation the author’s lack of criminal record.
as reported Black river According to several chronicles, the Saturday night that the event occurred, Codegoni, a citizen with license to drive large trucks, circulated “with 2 milligrams of alcohol in the blood and a cocaine content of 124 nanograms, which is moderate to high consumption. It does not correspond to coca tea or chewing coca or any drug, “said the prosecutor in her statement.
According to the defense, the man drank a can of beer and drank coca leaf tea.
rub and chase
On Intendente Carro street, between Leguizamón and Láinez, it circulated in a zigzag and had a collision with a Fiat Strada that was behind. Both drivers got out, and the one from the Strada told him when he perceived his drunken state: “You can’t drive like that, you’re going to kill someone”.
Then, frightened by the aggressiveness of the owner of the Eco Sport, returned to his vehicle and escaped.
Codegoni chased him for 380.20 meters, crossing three corners, and finally at Carro and Pampa, at 58.28 kilometers per hour (the maximum at an intersection is 25 km/h), he got on the sidewalk of Leiva’s delicatessen, who was outside the business. He ran over him, crushed him once morest the wall and caused his death.
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