{"id":469886,"date":"2025-06-01T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/mp-appeals-reduction-of-sentence-for-colonel-cesar-marinez-in-death-of-christian-couple\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:55:41","slug":"mp-appeals-reduction-of-sentence-for-colonel-cesar-marinez-in-death-of-christian-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/mp-appeals-reduction-of-sentence-for-colonel-cesar-marinez-in-death-of-christian-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"MP appeals reduction of sentence for Colonel C\u00e9sar Mar\u00ed\u00f1ez in death of Christian couple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>San Cristobal.-<\/em> <\/strong>The Public Ministry (<a href=\"https:\/\/pgr.gob.do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MP<\/a>) filed an appeal for cassation before the <strong>Supreme Court of Justice<\/strong> against the decision of the <strong>Second Chamber of the Criminal Court of the Court of Appeal of San Cristobal,<\/strong> which reduced the sentence imposed on Colonel C\u00e9sar Mar\u00ed\u00f1ez Lora from 20 to 10 years, found guilty of the shooting death of the Christian couple <strong>Elisa Mu\u00f1oz Marte<\/strong> and <strong>Joel Eusebio D\u00edaz Ferrer,<\/strong> which occurred in March 2021 in Villa <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/apelaran-la-sentencia-contra-policias-por-la-muerte-de-pareja-de-religiosos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Altagracia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resource was presented by the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal, F\u00e1tima S\u00e1nchez Guzm\u00e1n, and the chief prosecutor of Villa Altagracia, Dalma D\u00edaz, who filed the file in the court secretariat. The legal action seeks the annulment of the appeal sentence and the reinstatement of the original 20-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/imponen-20-anos-de-prision-a-coronel-y-raso-por-muerte-a-pareja-de-evangelicos\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"257052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impose 20 years in prison on colonel and private for death of evangelical couple<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Public Ministry argues that the decision of the appeals court does not conform to the law and misrepresents the seriousness of the events that occurred. In addition to Mar\u00ed\u00f1ez Lora, the appeal was also filed against the accused Guillermo Rosario Melo, Emil Alexander Rinc\u00f3n Marte, V\u00edctorino Reyes Navarro, Domingo Perdomo Reyes, \u00c1ngel de los Santos, Anthony Castro P\u00e9rez, Juan Samuel Ogando Sol\u00eds and Norquis Rodr\u00edguez Jim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case caused national shock after it was learned that the murdered couple was being pursued by mistake when returning from a religious activity, and was riddled with bullets by police officers. Since then, family members and social sectors have demanded justice and an exemplary sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Cristobal.- The Public Ministry (MP) filed an appeal for cassation before the Supreme Court of Justice against the decision of the Second Chamber of the Criminal Court of the Court of Appeal of San Cristobal, which reduced the sentence imposed on Colonel C\u00e9sar Mar\u00ed\u00f1ez Lora from 20 to 10 years, found guilty of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":469887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41031,40706,19765,40315,40265,41030],"class_list":["post-469886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-christian-couple","tag-condemnation","tag-confusion","tag-deceased","tag-public-ministry","tag-shot-to-death"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YeO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Pareja-cristiana.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Pareja-cristiana.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}