Manslaughter indictmennt for lawmaker

Supreme Court Judge Angela Russo de Cedeño, has completed her investigation of a lawmaker charged with aggravated manslaughter after hitting a 14-year-old girl and leaving the scene near his home in Buena Vista, Colon in December 2017.

The case attracted widespread attention as the CD deputy, Mario Lázarus is a medical doctor who gave no attention to the injured girl but headed home and returned only after she had been removed by an ambulance.

The judge transferred the indictment to the Judge of Guarantees Harry Diaz after prior transfer of the accusation to the defense.  Diaz who is on vacation will indicate the date of the oral and public hearing, which must be done within a period of not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, to discuss and decide the issues raised in the accusation.

If the petition for a summons to trial is admitted, Díaz must submit the proceedings before the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice, to resolve what is legally required as deputies are tried by the Supreme Court.