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Judge Juan Carlos Maggiolo was sentenced to three years in prison for fleeing a fatal accident in Concón, Valparaíso, where a woman died and three people were injured. The Emilia Foundation highlighted the sentence as an effective message of justice in road cases with deaths and leaks.
The Criminal Oral Court of Viña del Mar sentenced three years in prison to the judge Juan Carlos Maggiolowho fled from a fatal traffic accident without helping the victim in Concón, in the Valparaíso region.
Recall that the facts for which he was charged occurred in August of the year 2023, When the magistrate was involved in a triple collision in Los Pellines streetwhere a woman lost her life and three other people resulted in serious injuries.
After hearing the sentence, the president of the Emilia Foundation, Carolina Figueroahe valued the measure and said that it is a good sign for the country that justice acts in the right way.
-“We value that justice is applying effective sentences of three years and one day to those who commit road crimes resulting in death and also flee from the sinister place”he commented.
Adding that “This penalty, in addition to implying prison, disables the convicted to exercise public positions and offices and is a clear sign that no one who leaves a victim can represent the citizenship”.
Of course, it should be clarified that of the three years of penalty, Maggiolo must fulfill one effectively, while the rest of the sentence under the mode of intensive featured freedom.
Along with this, you must pay a fine of 11 UTM -not more than $ 755 thousand -, which was divided into eleven monthly installments.
