The trial held in Algeciras against the the chestnut clan for drug trafficking has remained suspended temporarily this noon when the resignation of one of the lawyers of the defense after receiving threats from your client during a break.
The process has been resumed after an hour, approximately, after the defenses of other defendants -among them several of the alleged ringleaders of the plot- have assumed the defense.
Las threats have occurred, as explained by the lawyer himself and has subsequently corroborated the prosecutionduring the recess in which the members of the jury were deliberating on the challenges to the indictment and a dozen of previous questions. According to other lawyers present in the room, the defendant told his lawyer that he “they would see on the streetalong with other insults.
When the transmission of the trial returns (during the recess the broadcast in streaming closed circuit to follow the hearing was suspended), the assaulted lawyer has informed the court of his immediate decision to relinquish the defense of his sponsoredwho was being treated by the toilets in adjoining rooms due to his state of excitement.
From the Public Prosecutor’s Office they have corroborated what happenedTherefore, no opposition has been shown to the decision announced by the lawyer.
The presiding judge of the court, Navy Snows -who was not present at the time of the events because she was meeting for deliberation-, has then determined suspend the view and start conversations “immediately” with the Bar Association so that the defendant has a defense as soon as possible, either freely appointed or through the ex officio shift.
Although some of the defense attorneys for other defendants have requested that the work schedule be maintained, the judge has flatly rejected appealed to fundamental right to defense. “Every defendant must have a defense in a trial. And the lawyer who exercised that right, due to the circumstances that have occurred, has resigned,” the judge announced before suspending the process.
