Lawyer justifies withdrawal from suspended judge case

LAWYER Sidney Sitton justified on Sunday, December 14, his resignation as defense attorney for suspended Supreme Court Judge Alejandro Moncada Luna, claiming that in the process there is no equity for the parties and due process is being violated.

Sitton said that in criminal proceedings and the rules of adversarial criminal justice system one of the basic principles is the due process and contradiction..
The lawyer said that in the last hearing after the Prosecution requests by the Deputy Pedro Miguel González, the judges of guarantee told the defense that they had no right to speak reports La Prensa
“That in any lawsuit that claims to be fair is not, because precisely the contradiction is what nourishes the process,” he said.
Moncada Luna remains under house arrest