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Argentina's Supreme Court upholds life sentence for teenager's murder

Argentina's Supreme Court has made final the conviction of police officer Fabián López, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of teenager Lucas González. The decision is final due to technical failures in the defense.


Argentina's Supreme Court upholds life sentence for teenager's murder

Buenos Aires, December 21 (NA) – The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation has made final and irrevocable the conviction set against one of the police officers sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Lucas González. The teenager was a victim of police brutality on November 17, 2021, when he left with friends to train at Club Barracas Central. According to the document accessed by the Argentine News Agency, this is Fabián Andrés López, who in 2023 was sentenced to life imprisonment, along with officers Gabriel Isassi and Juan José Nieva, for the minor's homicide. In the two-page resolution, judges Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, and Ricardo Lorenzetti informed that this decision was granted due to technical failures in the defense, led by Gabriel Alejandro Jourdan. Convicted police officers. These are Roberto Orlando Inca, Fabián Alberto Du Santos, Rodolfo Alejandro Ozán, and Héctor Claudio Cuevas for the crime of aggravated cover-up and unlawful deprivation of liberty. “The appellant party has not complied with the summons made by the Secretary of the Tribunal,” for which reason “the appeal is considered not filed,” the document explains. In this way, the conviction against López became final and cannot be revoked in the future, as expressed by the Supreme Court. Acquittal of two of the accused. In April of this year, two of the police officers who had been convicted were acquitted following a ruling by the III Chamber of the National Court of Criminal and Correctional Appeals. The two officers who were acquitted and had to be released are Juan Horacio Romero and Sebastián Jorge Baidón, who had been sentenced to six and eight years in prison respectively. IP Lucas's parents, friends, and lawyer Gregorio Dalbón.