The Supreme Court will on November 29 review appeals against the decision in the Arandina case, in which a former Arandina Club de Fútbol player was acquitted after being sentenced to 38 years in prison and two others had their terms reduced. sentence to 3 and 4 years to see the judges sexual abuse and not aggression.
Legal sources informed EFE that the Criminal Chamber of the high court set for that date the deliberation and decision of the appeals presented against the sentence of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León, which significantly changed the previous one issued by the Burgos Provincial Court.
The debate takes place amid controversy over sentencing for sexual crimes as an application of the Organic Law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, known as the “yes law.”
In fact, the Supreme Court has already tabled several appeals from convicts asking to have their sentences reduced based on this rule, and plans to rule on any of them in less than a month.
In the La Arandina case, the court must resolve the appeals of the two former players and also the Prosecutor’s Office, which understands that the regional court should not have applied the mitigating factors that served to significantly reduce the sentences for the two condemned people, and demand that Their feathers be ruffled.
In December 2019, the Burgos Court sentenced each of three former Arandina Club de Fútbol players -Carlos Cuadrado “Lucho”, Víctor Rodríguez “Viti” and Raúl Calvo- to 38 years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor on November 24, 2017.
However, when reviewing the verdict, the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León completely excluded the youngest, Raúl Calvo, from responsibility and reduced the sentence of Cuadrado to four years in prison and Rodríguez to three years, considering -considering that they are responsible for a crime of sexual abuse and not assault.
He did this because he did not consider the existence of bullying to be proven – at that important moment to think about sexual assault – and he described the facts as sexual abuse in light of the closeness of age and maturity of defendants and victims. The debate over whether or not this mitigation should be applied will be key to the Supreme Court.
Source: La Verdad
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