Charm City Anarchist Black Cross

from solidaridadporlxspresxs, transl waronsociety:

URGENT: THE BOMBS CASE TRIAL IS SUSPENDED.
The prosecution’s tricks and ruses could annul the whole trial.

On May 11, 2012, the court of appeals decided this time to accept a challenge made by the Southern Prosecution of the Ministry of the Interior in which the judges are accused of bias and lacking in impartiality.

Courtroom one of the appeals court voted in the majority to accept the challenge, immediately paralyzing the trial. The judges who have until recently carried out the trial — Marcela Duran Sandoval, Carlos Carrillo and Blanca Rojas — of the Third Oral Criminal Tribunal will have to send out report soon about the accusations that the prosecution is making, while meanwhile the ruling indicated that they should “abstain from further intervention” until the challenge is resolved. Which in other words means the complete and absolute stoppage of the bombs case political trial, which has already gone on for more than 107 days of hearings, and almost 6 months of inquisitorial process.

The trial was continuing its course, and had gotten to the presentation of evidence and witnesses by Francisco Solar’s defense, Mónica Caballero’s defense, and it was at Omar Hermosilla’s defense when the trial was paralyzed. Continue reading →

From liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety

These were the final weeks of the prosecution’s evidence in the first oral trial under the anti-terrorist law against the anarchist and anti-authoritarian specter, one of the longest of the criminal procedure reform.

Whose signature?

It is again made clear how the police, especially the carabineros, in their continual reports “change” their signatures. After innumerable similar episodes during the trial, no witness or expert could recognize or know whose signature it was that was impersonated. Finally, on the last day of the prosecution’s evidence, a witness acknowledged that he had signed some reports of other police officers.

Chain of custody lost

All the evidence has a document called “chain of custody” that is a part where the police write the site where it was taken from and who else had examined it, the only record of hands passing the evidence in question.

The prosecution introduces a piece of evidence to the tribunal, and in their complete disorder they take out the chain of custody and lose it. After not finding this document (the chain of custody), the prosecution tries to blame the functionary in charge of the tribunal, after the bickering in which they indicated that it was the prosecution itself that took the chain of custody, the judges decided to suspend the hearing until the document finally appeared. After a couple of days the prosecutors arrived as if nothing had happened, and without denying the accusations that they themselves had made in order to absolve themselves of responsibility, they brought the chain of custody that they acknowledged having found in their own offices. Continue reading →