{"id":508745,"date":"2026-05-27T19:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/next-june-5-could-mark-the-closing-of-the-trial-for-the-death-of-the-child-gioser-felix-in-santiago\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:19:05","slug":"next-june-5-could-mark-the-closing-of-the-trial-for-the-death-of-the-child-gioser-felix-in-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/next-june-5-could-mark-the-closing-of-the-trial-for-the-death-of-the-child-gioser-felix-in-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"Next June 5 could mark the closing of the trial for the death of the child Gioser F\u00e9lix in Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santiago<\/strong>.-More than three years after the crime that shocked the Dominican Republic, the trial for the death of the child <strong>Gioser Luis F\u00e9liz<\/strong> entered its decisive phase this Wednesday, after the <strong>First Collegiate Tribunal of the Judicial District of Santiago<\/strong> exhausted a large part of the evidence and testimonies against the six defendants in the case.\n\nThe hearing concluded with the reproduction of audiovisual and material evidence, practically leaving the process ready for the final intervention of the defense, scheduled for June 5, a date that could bring closer the expected judicial outcome of the case that shook the country in April 2023.\n\nThe family&#8217;s lawyer, Andr\u00e9s Toribio, assured that the trial is already more than halfway through and stated that the victims maintain the hope of obtaining a conviction in the coming weeks.\n\n\u201c<strong>All the witnesses have already been heard and all the evidence has been presented before the court. We believe that justice will be served next month<\/strong>\u201d, the jurist expressed as he left the courtroom.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/justicia\/wanderframcoesperafallojucio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wander Franco arrives at the Puerto Plata court awaiting the ruling of his new trial<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nOne of the most emotional moments occurred when the minor&#8217;s father, Sergio Luis F\u00e9lix, expressed the emotional toll that the legal process has taken on him after multiple postponements.\n\n&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of coming here. Each hearing forces me to relive everything again. The only thing I want is justice,&#8221; he declared, visibly affected.\n\nFrom his side, defense attorney Carlos Villanueva, representing the accused Tom\u00e1s Pe\u00f1a Morel, explained that the extension of the trial responds to the complexity of the file, the amount of evidence, and the number of people involved in the process.\n\nHe indicated that this corresponds to the seventh hearing and did not rule out new sessions before the final conclusions, because six defendants, ten lawyers and the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office are involved in the case.\n\nThe event occurred on April 19, 2023, when the child was returning with his father and the latter&#8217;s partner from the Cibao International Airport. While traveling on the Circunvalaci\u00f3n Norte, the vehicle they were in was shot at during a presumed robbery attempt, causing the death of the minor.\n\nFor the crime, Derlyn Javier Mercado Mart\u00ednez, C\u00e9sar Junior Ulloa Cuevas, Luis \u00c1ngel Vargas Brito, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Almonte Santana and Eli\u00e1n Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez are being prosecuted, in addition to Tom\u00e1s Pe\u00f1a Morel.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago.-More than three years after the crime that shocked the Dominican Republic, the trial for the death of the child Gioser Luis F\u00e9liz entered its decisive phase this Wednesday, after the First Collegiate Tribunal of the Judicial District of Santiago exhausted a large part of the evidence and testimonies against the six defendants in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133558,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-28lz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Linda Veras","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-11-at-9.59.54-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508745","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\/133558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}