The Myrna Mack Case An Update (1998) / Chapter Skim
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The Fourth Chamber of the Court of Appeals (Sala Cuarta de la Corte de 9
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The private prosecutor files an appeal to the Constitutional Court seeking reversal of the Supreme Court's ruling. The private prosecutor argues that the requested documents contain critical evidence to prove the complicity of the superior officers in the Myrna Mack murder.
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The Constitutional Court holds that the correct channel through which to file the "Injunctive Relief of Attachment" was the Court of First Instance (la Corte de Primera Instancia) , which had the case in its docket.
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June 11, 1996 Court indicts military officers. Judge Heriberto Guzman Munoz of the Military Tribunal of the First Instance (el Juzgado Militar de Primera InstanciaJ issues the indictment against Gen.
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Both the state and the private prosecutors independently file appeals claiming that due process has been violated by Judge Ventura's decisions and that the judge has not observed proper judicial procedure. Judge Pais transmits the appeals to a court of appeals (la Sala Tercera de la Corte de Apelaciones)
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The court of appeals (la Sala Tercera de la Corte de Apelaciones) that is handling the officers' second amnesty petition also finds that the crime allegedly committed by the officers does not, by definition, fit within the parameters of the amnesty law.
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September 1997 Supreme Court rules that the officers' amnesty appeal is irrelevant. The Supreme Court upholds the lower courts' ruling that the three military officers do not qualify for amnesty under the Law of National Reconciliation on the basis that the murder "had the characteristics of a political crime." The officers seek the last legal protection (called an amparo)
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