Overview

• The Cámara Séptima del Crimen accepted every cassation filing in the case and sent the record to the Provincial Tribunal Superior de Justicia’s Sala Penal for resolution.
• The admitted appeals include those from Brenda Agüero’s defense, ex-health secretary Pablo Carvajal, ex-hospital director Liliana Asís and other convicted officials, while prosecutors and private accusers also seek review of some acquittals.
• The review will consider challenges to prior absolutions of ex-minister Diego Cardozo, physician María Alejandra Luján and ex–Tocoginecology chief Claudia Ringelgheim, with the acquittals of Alejandro Gauto and Alicia Ariza left intact.
• Agüero’s lawyers ask to nullify the deliberation, vote and sentence, alleging a juror concealed relevant ties and experiences at the hospital and citing a claimed 4–4 split in the jury as grounds to invalidate the verdict.
• The defense also argues there is no direct observation linking Agüero to injections and criticizes toxicological, forensic and psychological evidence, including the reliability of postmortem potassium measures, as insufficient or inconsistent.