Overview

• Prosecutor Nicolás Amelotti closed his case by requesting a life sentence and recidivist status for Isaías José Suárez on charges of homicidio criminis causa and aggravated robbery.
• Defense lawyer Ramiro Rúa argued for full acquittal or, in the alternative, convictions on lesser homicide charges by asserting that key camera footage and an eyewitness account are unreliable.
• Prosecutors built their case on a dog-walker’s 911 call, analysis of over 10,000 security camera frames that produced 34 matches, and the seizure of a Tramontina knife linked to the attack.
• Suárez, detained in Barrio 31 days after the August 30, 2023 stabbing of civil engineer Mariano Barbieri, remains in preventive detention as closing arguments conclude.
• Judges Julio Pablo Quiñones, Julio López Casariego and Matías Buenaventura at Criminal and Correctional Court No. 11 will deliver their verdict on August 28.