The chief prosecutor Gustavo Herrera did not object to the request of the defense of extend for 20 days the debate on the evidence that will reach the trial for the femicide of Patricia Rendón in Catriel, but clarified that it cannot be after June, taking into account the procedural deadlines and that the accused is in pretrial detention in the Roca prison.
Cronenbold’s defender, Rubén Antigualaasked Judge Guillermo Baquero Lazcano for a 20-day extension to control the evidence that the accusers will present in this instance of accusation control. The prosecutor and the plaintiff Marcelo Hertzriken Velasco did not oppose the request and that is why theyA new debate will be set to know the evidence with which it will come to trial.
The trial judge asked the parties to work outside the hearing to define the evidentiary basis common to avoid delaying the process as has happened in other complex cases in this constituency.
“I insist on this conceptwork on those you have to work on, and avoid bringing more conflict to the one that already exists. If they can work on what I ask for before that date, the better,” said Baquero Lazcano. He anticipated that there could be two or three more hearings to bring the case to trial.
The legal qualification of aggravated femicide only contemplates a sentence that is life imprisonment. That is why it is known that the debate will be judged by a popular jury. There is only one precedent in Cipolletti and it was also for a femicide in Catriel, the crime of Agustina Atencio in 2019.
“I was always available to the defense. I have no objection that it is 20 days or two months, as long as it is done before June. We have 48 witnesses with the complaint. I have no objections to the extension, but the information was always available,” said Chief Prosecutor Herrera.
They insist on innocence
Another of the previous issues that were discussed at the hearing was the defense theory: that it was a crime for drug trafficking and that Cronenbold It was not the author of the act, but other people. Antiguala insisted on this theory and He said the prosecution does not want to investigate that theory.
However, Herrera said that he gave intervention to the Federal justice to investigate and the prosecutor of Cinco Saltos, Leandro López, also took action on the matter.
According to the defense, two people were the ones who murdered Patricia and forced him to bury Cronenbold’s body in a rural area, some 80 km from Catriel. The defendant’s account is that they summoned him to that place, they put the body of her ex-partner in her trunk and then at gunpoint they forced him to bury him.
The theory of the prosecution, and which has several pieces of evidence, including traces of blood in the defendant’s car, was that Cronebold beat her to death in her home, on the afternoon of June 28, 2021, and then buried her in the area. from Post Morales.
He was arrested that afternoon at a police checkpoint. At night, and in the midst of a strong social demonstration at the local police station, Cronenbold confessed where the body was.
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