The Court of Appeals of The Silver confirmed this Thursday the rejection of the request for house arrest on the part of the defense of Felicitas Alvite, known as ”La Toretto”. The young woman is accused of run over and kill motorcyclist Rubén Walter Armand in the capital of Buenos Aires.
Chamber III of the Criminal Chamber, made up of judges Fernando Mateos and Juan Benavidesratified the ruling of the Guarantees magistrate Marcela Garmendia and, in this way, The accused must wait in prison for the start of the oral trialas reported The Day. On the other hand, the other member of the court, the judge Alejandro Villordovoted in favor of house arrest.
Villordo assessed that “he did not escape and stayed in the placerequesting by telephone an ambulance to attend to the victim of the incident”, as well as showing ”concern for the victim’s health”.
However, the young woman’s defense composed of Flavio Gliemmo, Santiago Irisarri and Luisina Gliemmowill have another instance to appeal the judicial resolution: the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Province of Buenos Aires. In the request that was rejected, they had been unfounded in that the person involved in the murder of the motorcyclist presented ”a delicate state of health”suffering episodes of extreme distress, panic attacks and stiffness in the hands, among other symptoms.
The case of “La Toretto” in La Plata
On Thursday, April 11, Alvite, 20, ran a red light at high speed while driving his Volkswagen Trend, and He hit Rubén Armand, 36, who died in the hospital.
The tragic event occurred in corner of Avenue 13 and 532 and a video from the municipality managed to capture the moment in which the young woman committed the offense. The case gained public notoriety and displays of indignation based on the young woman’s posts on social networks.
The expert opinion also determined that the girl – 20 years old – ran four red lights before attacking Walter Armandwho died hours later in a Gonnet hospital. Furthermore, the same study certified that Alvite traveled at an average of 73 kilometers, when the limit on avenues is 60, and that there were no surveillance cameras in the area.
The prosecutor Fernando Padovan accused her of “simple homicide with possible intent“, a crime that carries a penalty of between 8 and 25 years in prison. In principle, the case had been classified as “manslaughter”a less serious classification, which stipulated that there had been no intention to kill. However, after analyzing the videos, the prosecution requested the aggravation since they considered that Alvite was running a collision with another young woman, who was driving a Peugeot 208.
The young woman had denied in her statement that she was running a rampage, and stated that she was following a friend to return to City Bell since she did not know the way back from La Plata.
Source: Ambito
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