2023-11-05 17:50:47
Cristian Valdebenito was murdered in December 2021, following a fight in the Luis Piedra Buena neighborhood. The young man was ambushed and ended up being murdered with 17 stab wounds to his body. David Fernández, the accused in the case, has been in preventive detention since that moment. Tomorrow, Monday, November 6, the jury trial will begin.
Last Friday the popular jury that will determine the guilt or not of David Fernández in the crime of Cristian Valdebenito was defined. The event occurred in December 2021 in the Luis Piedra Buena neighborhood. The young man was ambushed and killed with several stab wounds. Tomorrow, in the hearing room of the Judiciary in Cipolletti, the trial will begin.
Cristian Valdebenito was free for a few days following several admissions to the province’s prisons. That day in December, according to the prosecution’s theory, Valdebenito was ambushed at a construction site and killed with 17 stab wounds to the head and chest.. It is assumed, from the autopsy, that two sharp weapons were used, although the investigation might only find Fernández.
The incident occurred in the early hours of December 28 in the vicinity of Perú and Pastor Bowdler streets. Since that day, David Fernandez, He is in preventive detention for being suspected of having committed the crime.
Trial by jury in Cipolletti: who makes up the popular jury
For the 2022 and 2023 trials, 1,250 women and 1,250 men were drawn from the electoral roll provincial, and from there they are selected according to the jurisdiction in which each process is carried out.
A list of 60 people is formed for each trial, and following interviews in which an investigation is carried out on labor, religious and assessment of evidence issues, in addition to the analysis of the combination of impediments, opinions offered, challenges with cause and without cause and the application of other legal filters, Finally, 16 people are selected, of which 12 (six men and six women) are chosen as regular jurors and the other four as substitutes.
The objective of the system is to seek to guarantee the formation of a jury that is “impartial and free of prejudices or personal conditioning that prevent it from analyzing the evidence with neutrality.”
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