Supreme Courts looks at troops in court

[NewsWhore]

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into the presence of several members of the armed forces intelligence unit (J-2) in a courtroom of Santo Domingo's Second Court of Instruction during the preliminary hearings of the case involving Colonel Leonel Velasquez and others implicated in the murder of Major Jose Herran Mancebo. The event led to the suspension of the hearings. According to the report in El Caribe, Jorge Subero Isa ordered the director general of the judiciary, Pablo Rodriguez, to look into this case. Last week, magistrate Maria del Socorro Perez suspended the hearings when members of the J-2 tried to take over the courtroom. On Monday the Armed Forces Minister said that his people were acting on instructions from the magistrate. Apparently the accused, Leonel Velasquez, had asked the Air Force chief of staff to send J-2 officers to the courtroom.

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