Assembly panel chosen to hear case against Judge

THREE DEPUTIES have been named to decide the fate of Supreme Court Judge Victor Benavides who has been accused of pedophilia and selling decisions and whose case seems destined to be moved to the head of a list of some 60 denunciations against serving judges including the court’s president.

Initially the Luis Barria president of the Credentials Committee of the National Assembly said that the Benavidis case would have to stand in line, but one week after the scandal broke , besieged by media pressure, the committee agreed to review the case without time reservations It was declared in permanent session and assigned the case to Elias Castillo, PRD , Ana Matilda Gomez (Independent) and Marilyn Vallarino, (CD).
Barría was noted for his disinterest in investigating the complaint against Benavides because this month the Supreme Court decided to dismiss a complaint against him for alleged corruption and requests for bribes when he was Head of the Public Registry says La Estrella.
The complaint against Benavides is based on a video in which his former security guard Vicente Caballero, reveals the alleged crimes of his then boss.
The regular sessions of the Legislature will end on Thursday, and will not resume until July.
The Committee it will also analyze the acceptance of a complaint lodged in March by union leaderMariano Mena against Chief Justice Jose Ayu Prado, who has accumulated the most complaints accumulates in the legislature.
Leandro Avila, Luis Barria and Elias Castillo will see seven each. Kathleen Levy, Hector Carrasquilla, Mario Miller, Zulay Rodríguez, Ana Matilde Gomez and Marilyn Vallarino, another six each.
Three of these records are against Benavides (who leaves the Court in December) for alleged failure to fulfill his duties, abuse of office and abuse of authority, submitted between June 2008 and October 2011, all facing the possibility of expire because of limitations. Legislative sources told La Estrella this may be the future of ninety percent of the complaints that rest on the commission.
Barria, said some of the complaints he saw were ‘nonsense’.