Ernesto Azarkevich
04/18/2021 2:14 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/18/2021 2:14 PM
The Superior Court of Justice of Misiones ratified the sentence of
three years in prison
for the former Miss Argentina
Rocío Fiorella Santa Cruz
, who at the end of January 2016 ran over and killed -in a drunken state- a traffic inspector who was circulating in your motorcycle after finishing your work day.
With this adverse ruling, the young employee of the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) was
one step away from going back to jail
to serve the remainder of her sentence.
It is that he was already in the Alcaidía de Mujeres de Posadas for almost four months after he violated the prohibition to leave the country that the Justice dictated.
Unlike what usually happens with other similar cases, there was no unanimity in the opinion of the ministers of the Superior Court of Justice.
Two of its members voted to make room for the appeal and that the file return to the first instance for a new ruling.
After receiving the notification, the defenders of Santa Cruz (35) have ten days to present an extraordinary appeal to the Superior.
If it is rejected, they are left with the instance of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, but the judge who issued the sentence
could order the arrest
so that he begins to serve the sentence imposed.
Rocío Santa Cruz was in prison for less than 4 months.
Photo: The Territory
Santa Cruz has already been benefited by the Superior Court of Justice, which annulled the first ruling for which she was sentenced to four years in effective prison for the wrongful death
of 53-year-old
inspector
Ramón “Topo” Cabrera
.
They considered that the speeding of the defendant's car had not been proven at the time of impact.
Minister Rosana Pía Venchiarutti refuted the defense's claim, considering that there were no irregularities in the trial, which "has passed with total normality."
And he recalled that after the annulment of the first ruling, the file was sent to another judge for "the correction of a legal defect for which the intervention of the parties is not necessary, as the defense intends to introduce."
"It is noteworthy that the defense reissues in its entirety the arguments expressed in its first appeal, with the particularity that they refer to a penalty other than the one imposed on this occasion, leaving the arguments given by the judge to justify the new undamaged. imposition, ”Venchiarutti said.
At the end of 2018, Santa Cruz was sentenced to four years in jail for the accident, but it made serving the sentence subject to the ruling being final.
In the resolution, he was prohibited from leaving the country and not driving vehicles.
A few weeks later, Santa Cruz was discovered on a flight that departed from Asunción bound for Lima, Peru.
The young woman and her partner canceled their vacations and returned to the country, but the Justice proved that she had left the country and started a new criminal case.
The judge who had convicted her, César Raúl Jiménez, ordered her immediate arrest for having violated the conditions of probation.
Santa Cruz was detained for 155 days and was released due to a controversial Habeas Corpus appeal.
Missions. Correspondent.
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