The trial against the eight rugby players who attacked and beat to death Fernando Baez Sosa on January 18, 2020 at the door of the Villa Gesell bowling alley comes to an end. The lawyer in the complaint, Fernando Burlando, has already announced that he will request life imprisonment for the eight defendants and for this reason all eyes are now on the defense and one last card that he could play before the verdict is announced: a request of annulment due to the breakdown of the defense.
“It would be scandalous, but the defense could still be separated from the defendants if they show that there is a contradiction of interests”considered the criminal lawyer Fernando Soto and explained that “If that were the case, the annulment would be considered and if there is an annulment, everything that comes from there is badly done”.
The maneuver of “muddying the field” described by the lawyer in dialogue with the channel All News It would be the last resort to prevent all the defendants (Máximo Thomsen, Enzo Comelli, Matías Benicelli, Blas Cinalli, Ayrton Viollaz and Luciano, Ciro and Lucas Pertossi) from being on an equal footing and receiving the maximum penalty. However, Soto maintained that for the strategy to work the defense will have to prove that “something has changed and how that change affected them”, a variation that throughout the debate does not seem to have taken place.
This Wednesday the last hearing of the evidence presentation stage began, the last opportunity that the defendants who have not yet done so will have to give their version of what happened and defend themselves against the accusations. Although it is unknown whether or not they will make use of this option, the truth is that two forensic doctors will testify before the Court in Dolores, as three others have already done.
It’s all about the doctors Juan Jose Fenoglio Y Jorge Rodolfo Velichboth experts on behalf of the defense, in charge of Hugo Tomei, who on Tuesday visited the eight defendants whom he represents in Penal Unit 6 in Dolores and held a meeting with them for almost 3 hours. “I was in a meeting. What we talked about is part of the professional secret and is confidential,” he told the media that was waiting for him when he left prison.
Sources close to the defense, however, indicated that the testimonies of Fenoglio and Velich will point to alleged inconsistencies in the work of the doctor Diego Duarte, who was in charge of the autopsy performed on Fernando’s body after the crimeat the Pinamar Hospital.
