Overview
- The Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal No. 7 appointed Judges Alberto Gaig, Alberto Ortolani and Pablo Rolón to preside over the new proceedings.
- The court scheduled a pretrial evidence-control hearing for November 12 as the next procedural step.
- Prosecutors’ request for the process to resume as soon as possible was granted by the tribunal.
- Judges rejected defense motions to unify cases and dismissed a double-jeopardy claim as unfounded.
- The court also ruled a jury-trial request for defendant Leopoldo Luque was improper and late in a case charging seven defendants with homicide by reckless indifference.