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SANTO DOMINGO.- The recent criticisms of judicial rulings which have benefited alleged criminals may lead many judges to issue no other restrictive measure than incarceration "under any circumstance."

Supreme Court president Jorge Subero made the affirmation yesterday during a speech in a ceremony to mark the Day of the Public Defender. "That restriction is going to necessarily entail the increase of the inmate population."

He affirmed that the questioned judges have said they’ve based their rulings on the Penal Procedural Code’s dispositions. “The information I have is that some judges have already stated that, under no circumstance, as a result of the criticism which have been voiced, that they are neither going to grant bail nor any other measure."

Subero’s statement was in reference to a ruling by National District 7th Instruction Court judge Rosanna Vásquez, who released the money laundering suspect Sobeida Felix, whose whereabouts are unknown since one week ago.

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Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 13 Nov 2009 8:56 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
on drug cases there should be no bail
Written by: gmiller261, 13 Nov 2009 9:15 AM
From: United States

How tough is this? Are these 'authorities' that stupid?

She was found with keys to an armored car with 4 million cash in it.

A 10 year old would call her a flight risk.

What an education system.
Written by: VeronicaDR, 13 Nov 2009 10:44 AM
From: United States
gmiller very true anyone with even 1/4 a brain would have known they would leave the country if they felt like it. The corruption factor makes incarceration mean nothing. A jail guard would have been bribed and they would just have "escaped". Supposedly the military was guarding the flight of our escaped criminals. Our justice system is a joke and we are run by corrupt fools.
Written by: JD_Dominguez, 13 Nov 2009 10:56 AM
From: United States, Reality Check
They need to be turned over to the FBI ASAP!

It is true as Veronica states a many prison guards making $200/month could not resist that temptation. The military guards that resist corruption pressure from superiors usually end up mysteriously dead!

These are all evidences that the current system is rotten to the core with corruption. I am not sure if even our best US agents really understand what they are up against.

The DR network of micro-traffickers will help the fugitives becuz these locals have grown very powerful because US officials did not think these were the big fish so, they left them alone to gain wealth, arms and do bigger drug deals like the ones I know of in Santiago. While our US officials in the capital (Embassy) have been so busy being "PC" (politically correct), it is now just showing signs of biting us in the @ss. We never thought the barrio Tigueres holding drugs for cooling off, local distribution & b/4 sending to the US would be a problem for
Written by: juanb, 13 Nov 2009 1:43 PM
From: Dominican Republic
The only change that we will see is that the corrupt judges will make sure that they have more reasons to put the crooks back on the streets, but they will still release them. Some things never change and certainly our legal system is one of them.
Written by: glomarexplorer, 13 Nov 2009 8:45 PM
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
Dis-Bar them!

Fire them all!

They are all swine.
Written by: Ricardolito, 15 Nov 2009 2:13 AM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I am not too sure why you are saying this because the jails here are so overcrowded and in more than 90% of cases the judge makes good decisions..There are a few cases where outside influences such as corrupt police or security officers make a judge's decision seem bad..but when a person surrenders the passport and pays a huge amount of money and has to report regularly to the court,must a judge take account that ,even though the alleged criminal is likely to abide by bail conditions ,there may be outside people ,in government employ ,who will break the law and so devalue the total bail process.
I would hate to be in a country where alleged criminals are imprisoned without trial or conviction no matter what
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