After six days of maximum waiting The popular jury in the Samuel case has delivered its verdict. Details will be known around 1:00 p.m., at which time they will be processed. reading in court.
Monday afternoon, the magistrate explained to the jury the subject of the verdict. Since then, the jury has remained isolated in a hotel under judicial guard. The jury is made up of nine people who had to respond over the last week to a battery of more than 100 questions on the case and the involvement of each of the accused in the death of Samuel. The members had to answer each of the questions, being necessary to reach a consensus of five votes if the decision was favorable to the prisoner and seven if it was contrary to his interests. Once the long process was completed, a report had to be prepared with the results.
The magistrate will be the one who will have the last word and set the penalties, but the votes of the popular jury will be decisive. This Monday, November 18, he rightly underlined the importance of a “fair verdict”.
As you may have known Fifteen thousand is the the longest deliberation in the judicial history of Galicia by exceeding 120 hours of reflection. Until now, the position was occupied by the Asunta case, which lasted about four and a half days. Regardless, the number of accused and questions is higher in Samuel’s case, since there are five people involved and over 100 questions.
The future of Montaña, Silva, Amaral, Míguez and Freire
Most defenses deny their clients’ participation and requests for sentences range from injury to involuntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter of another person. Additionally, in the case of two people involved, it should be clarified whether or not they acted because of the victim’s sexual orientation.
From left to right, the five accused: Diego Montaña, Catherine Silva, Kaio Amaral, Alejandro Míguez and Alejandro Freire “Yumba”.
Diego MM is the person who, according to the accusations and witnesses filed in the Provincial Court of La Coruña, initiated the attack, with insults of “fagot” to the victim. Prosecutor’s Office; The private accusation (the family) and the popular accusation, brought by the LGTBI group Alas Corogne, ask for 25 years in prison for murder with treason and cruelty and aggravated discrimination due to sexual orientation.
The defense proposes that the facts be considered as homicide for serious recklessness and a crime of injury with a sentence of two and one years respectively, or, alternatively, homicide with aggravated abuse of superiority and a sentence of 10 years. Added to this is the mitigating circumstance of alcohol consumption.
The same penalty of murder and aggravated discrimination They are seeking charges against Diego’s girlfriend, Catherine SB, alleging she was the one who pointed the finger at Samuel while he was on a video call, thinking her boyfriend was recording them and that she was preventing the friend of the victim to help him. Alternatively, they are seeking a sentence of 14 and a half years for complicity to murder compared to their defense’s acquittal.
Alejandro FG, the one who witnesses the place as the one who He grabbed Samuel by the neck with a “mataleón” technique, according to the accusations and which he rejects, he risks 22 years in prison for murder. His defense proposes a conviction for injuries and, if not confirmed, for involuntary manslaughter or manslaughter, without aggravation or, in any case, superiority. As mitigating factors, this includes alcohol and drug use.
For Kaio ASC, the person cited by certain witnesses as the one who he charged his leg to kick (police say the way he did it must have had an impact, he denies doing it and says he only separated), 27 years in prison are required for the offense of murder and theft of the deceased’s cell phone. His lawyer only asks for a conviction for property damage when his client admits to having “found” a phone and having taken it.
Acquittal or crime of injuryif this is considered to have any implication, demands the defense of Alejandro MR for his client. He denied, like the previous one and like Catherine SB, any participation in the attack and maintained, like them, that he had tried to separate himself from it. The police and some witnesses placed him at the heart of the attack, but could not confirm that he struck. For him, the charges require 22 years in prison or, failing that, 13 years in prison for complicity.
