After the verdict of the popular jury, who declared Pablo Parra guilty for the femicide of Agustina Fernández, the caesura hearing has a date. In this instance, Parra will know the penalty that the technical judge will apply for the crime. In cases of femicides, the The only applicable penalty is life. Parra’s lawyers announced that they will seek to challenge the jury’s verdict.
This Thursday, at 8:30 in the hearing room of the Cipolletti Judicial Office, the caesura hearing for the femicide of Agustina Fernández will take place. There, the technical judge of the case, Guillermo Baquero Lazcano, will inform Pablo Parra of the sentence for the crime.
The plaintiff lawyer, Emmanuel Roa Morenohe explained to RÍO NEGRO that, since Parra was considered responsible for femicide, the only possible penalty is life imprisonment. But he pointed out that “It’s not for life” and that “there will always be a finite possibility of non-compliance with the possibility of parole at a certain time.”
From the Public Prosecutor’s Office, they stated that during The opening statements of each of the parties will be present at the caesura hearing.and space will be opened for witnesses although there is still no certainty about their testimonies.
In this instance, the defense could resort to a challenge to the jury’s verdict. Something that the lawyers of Parra announced what they will do, referring to the fact that the jury only expresses what it defines and not the reasons.
Femicide of Agustina Fernández: what the crime was like
He attack happened in the apartment that Parra rented, located on the ground floor of a complex located on Confluencia Street at 1301 Cipolletti. The young woman was beaten. She suffered head trauma and a broken hand.
He died on July 5, 2022, at the Cipolletti hospital. He was 19 years old.
The chief prosecutor Santiago Márquez Gauna and his counterpart Martín Pezzetta maintained in the arguments -prior to the jury’s deliberation- that The trigger for the attack was that Agustina had relations that July afternoon with a young man, in his apartment, located in the same complex. They observed that Parra listened to them.
According to public and private accusers Parra was obsessed with the young woman, who had arrived in Cipolletti at the beginning of March 2022, from La Pampa, to study Medicine at the National University of Comahue. They highlighted that the victim rejected Parra.
Prosecutors warned the jury that Parra planned the femicide. And to divert the investigation he pretended that Agustina was the victim of a person who came in to rob her and attacked her, at a time when he was not there.
