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Argentina’s Supreme Court Lets Conviction of Pappo’s Son Stand

A rejection for formal defects under Acordada 4/2007 makes the sentence final.

Overview

  • The decision bears the signatures of Justices Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti.
  • The now-final sentence is three years and eight months for aggravated minor injuries in a gender-based violence context, threats, aggravated unlawful deprivation of liberty and possession of a war firearm.
  • Court filings describe episodes in Benavídez on November 21, 2020, involving threats with a .38 revolver, and on May 24, 2021, involving choking that impeded breathing.
  • Napolitano was originally convicted in an abbreviated trial by San Isidro Criminal Court No. 4, was acquitted by the San Isidro appeals chamber in December 2023, and saw that acquittal reversed by the Buenos Aires provincial high court in December 2024 for fragmentary evidence assessment.
  • He spent about a year and a half in custody between jail and house arrest during the case, and no further ordinary appeals remain with this ruling.