OPINION: Flagrant abuse  of justice system

A small piece of the Panamanian justice puzzle serves as a sample for the analysis of public opinion. A woman with a criminal record threw a gun from the Bridge of the Americas after having disrespected police officers who were doing their job. Both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the guarantee court accepted a penalty agreement, when there was allegedly en flagrante offense, without requesting cooperation to solve other crimes.

Although she was not granted community work as a substitute for the 50 months in prison-issued against her, the mere fact of conducting a hearing to discuss such a frightening request. Is it that neither the prosecutor nor the judge understood what this behavior really is about? The attorney general of the Nation, Eduardo Ulloa, has the task of refining the criteria of his prosecutors to accept penalty agreements. It is intolerable that a health center or school had been the destination of the criminal’s community work. Justice is not only what the codes say, but also what society needs. – LA PRENSA, Feb.29