JUDGE SCANDAL: lawyer objects to legislature nominees

THE LAWYER appointed to defend Supreme Court Judge Alejandro Moncada Luna, before the National Assembly for unjustified enrichment after buying two apartments for $1.7 million has objected to the appointment of deputies Ana Matilde Gómez and Zulay Rodríguez as judges of procedural guarantees

Defense attorney Sidney Sitton, who on Friday, October 10 notified the Clerk of the Legislature that he would represent MoncadaLuna is objecting to Ana Matilde Gomez because his client was one of the judges who signed an August 2010 ruling that removed her from her post as Attorney general, widely believed to have been a Ricardo Martinelli inspired rail-roading.
The objection to Rodriguez, because he was her lawyer a process when she was a fifth criminal circuit judge.
According to Sitton, both situations are grounds for disqualification, according to the Judicial Code.

Gomez and Rodriguez said they will wait for the defense lawyer to present his objections