Rosa Elena Bonilla de Martínez, who is part of the team of legal representatives that accompany former President Juan Orlando Hernández in his extradition process, said this Friday that there are possibilities for her client to be prosecuted in Honduras.
“There are multiple possibilities and one of them is the one we have been requesting and that is that Mr. Juan Orlando Hernández be prosecuted and prosecuted in Honduras for the crimes he is being reported in the United States”, assured the lawyer Bonilla.
Likewise, he assured that within the expectations is that it be resolved in accordance with the law, that each and every one of the allegations raised be answered and that, with due motivation, it be resolved in accordance with the legal and jurisdictional framework that corresponds.
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“One circumstance is what is established in article 8 of the treaty, which says that with pending prosecutions, extradition cannot be given,” he argued, while noting that there are 32 investigation processes once morest the former Honduran president in the Prosecutor’s Office.
“They are not simple complaints; In accordance with article 12-164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, preliminary investigations are part of the prosecution process,” added the togada.
APPEAL
The team of legal representatives of former President Hernández appeared on Friday at the secretariat of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) to present evidence and hear the admission of the appeal.
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The legal representatives of ex-executive head They had until yesterday to appear before the CSJ following being notified on Wednesday that the appeal filed in favor of their client had been accepted.
According Carlos Silva, spokesman for the Judiciary, the next step is to give a period of three days for the plenary session of the Court to be convened. In this case (the plenary session) performs the work of the Court of Appeals given the appeal filed by the defense.
THE COURT DECIDES ON MONDAY THE EXTRADITION
The President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Roland Argueta, reported yesterday that the extradition or not of former President Hernández, accused of three crimes associated with drug trafficking, will be decided next Monday, the day on which the meeting of the plenary of magistrates is scheduled for 8:00 am.
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“I understand that yes” (on Monday), Argueta told journalists in Puerto Cortés, in the Honduran Caribbean, when asked if that day the plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice will define whether Hernández will be extradited to the United States or not.
The head of the CSJ said that, within the framework of the Code of Criminal Procedures, the plenary session will discuss the content of the appealed decision.
In addition, it will know “what are the grievances or damages that the appellant party establishes that this resolution causes, the assessment of the legal arguments and finally the decision that must be made regarding the parameters or principles and guarantees of objectivity, independence and impartiality of the judges who are going to make up the plenary”.
HERNÁNDEZ, FIRST HONDURAN PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING BY THE US
Former President Hernández, 53, was captured on February 15 at his residence in Tegucigalpa, handcuffed and handcuffed, and taken to the Special Forces unit of the National Police, where he remains in custody, following the US. A day earlier, he requested his preventive arrest from Honduras for extradition purposes.
