Court favors senator Guerrero

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Former Police Commander for Peravia province, General Hilario Gonzalez said that he would file an appeal against the sentence handed down by the Supreme Court that said that the complaint against Senator Wilton Guerrero was unacceptable. The police officer, speaking through his lawyers Candido Simon Polanco and Freddy Calderon, sued for defamation, supported by articles 29,30, 32, 33 and 34 of Law 6132 on Expression and Diffusion of Thoughts because the senator accused the general "of protecting drug traffickers in Bani, Peravia." Lawyers Miguel Angel Prestol, Norberto Rondon, Marino Felix, Rafael Familia and Rafael Cordero defended Guerrero. The Supreme Court declared the case unacceptable because his accusations about Gonzalez's alleged complicity with drug traffickers were made in the protected forum of the Senate. They also alleged that the charges were poorly formulated and that they simply presented a chronology of newspaper articles cut from local papers. They said that the complaint was not very precise about when and how Senator Guerrrero incurred in the defamation and perjury against the general. When the court secretary finished reading the verdict, Polanco, one of the general's lawyers was visibly surprised and promised that he would file an appeal "tomorrow" (Thursday). He said that the complaint is well substantiated in the statements that say "General Hilario is a criminal at the service of crime, delinquency, prostitution and drug trafficking." The lawyer pointed out that he would continue to seek justice "unless justice does not answer as is proper and in that scenario, it is out of his hands."

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