Overview
- A Puebla Tribunal de Enjuiciamiento repeated the final phase of proceedings and again convicted Javier López Zavala of family violence against Cecilia Monzón.
- The redo followed the Fourth Collegiate Criminal Chamber’s annulment of the earlier sentence and required a full reading of Monzón’s original complaint before issuing the same verdict.
- Helena Monzón said the family will seek the maximum penalty or, at minimum, reinstatement of the previously imposed six-year prison term at the November 28 sentencing.
- Monzón’s sister criticized the repetition as revictimizing and noted the ruling again addressed only violence against Cecilia and not her nephew.
- A separate trial over Monzón’s feminicide involving López Zavala and two alleged accomplices remains unresolved after more than 70 hearings, and prosecutors have identified him as the presumed intellectual author.