Santo Domingo.– The defense for former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez stated this Tuesday that the judicial process of the Medusa case should be declared extinguished, asserting that the delays accumulated over the last six years are the responsibility of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and not the defendants.
During a recess in the hearing, the lawyers responded to the court’s decision to refer most of the motions raised by the defense to the merits of the case, clarifying that these “were not rejected,” but rather will be analyzed along with the trial.
According to the defense, the process began in August 2020 and has already exceeded the four-year maximum period established in the Code of Criminal Procedure. They argued that the delays are due to the length of the investigation, corrections made by the Public Prosecutor’s Office to the indictment, the late delivery of digital evidence, and other postponements recorded during the process.
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The lawyers also maintained that there are judicial decisions which, in their view, establish that the defense has not been responsible for the delays, and therefore they consider it appropriate to request the dismissal of the criminal action.
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For his part, Jean Alain Rodríguez rejected the Public Ministry’s claims that the appeals filed by his defense seek to delay the process. He assured that he has appeared at all hearings and expressed his willingness to face the trial.
The former attorney general also criticized the time he spent in pretrial detention and stated that, during that period, he was transported on hundreds of occasions to attend hearings, which, according to him, represented an unnecessary expense for the State.
The statements were offered after the court decided to continue with the hearing of the process and reserve for the trial on the merits most of the incidents presented by the defense.
