Overview
- The private accuser seeks a four-year prison term for Álvaro García Ortiz, while the Public Prosecutor and the State Attorney request acquittal.
- Accusing counsel argues the attorney general leaked a lawyer’s email to create an institutional narrative of confession that eroded the presumption of innocence.
- Guardia Civil UCO reports cast García Ortiz as having a preeminent role and full control that night, claims the defense and prosecutors dismiss as inferential with alternative sources left unexplored.
- Several journalists testified they had the email or its contents before it reached García Ortiz, as accusers counter with timing arguments linking his receipt of messages to Cadena SER’s later publication.
- The defense notes García Ortiz denied any leak, limited his answers to prosecutors and his counsel, and says device data deletions cited by accusers had security reasons.