Miami (EFE) The revocation of the life sentence that was imposed on him in 2019 and the holding of a new trial.
Before the three judges of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth District of Florida, based in the city of West Palm Beach (120 km from Miami), Joe Nascimento, Ibar’s lawyer, pointed out that the judicial process that ended was not “fair”. in 2019 with the verdict that sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
He highlighted that a specific motive was never found that linked Ibar to the three homicides and that throughout the judicial process there was carelessness with the pieces used as evidence.
The Pablo Ibar case
To a question from Judge Melanie May, the lawyer referred to the small DNA sample belonging to his client in a blue T-shirt found in the house in Miramar (Florida) where Casimir Sucharsky, owner of a nightclub, was shot and killed. and the models Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers, in 1994.
The lawyer alluded to the verdict of an expert who pointed out that the “quality of the sample was below standards” and stressed that a video recorded by a camera shows a man rubbing his face, touching the garment repeatedly and he wipes his mouth with it.
These DNA samples “do not match that of Ibar,” he asserted.
Before the panel of judges, which in addition to May is made up of judges Cory Ciklin and Jeffrey Kuntz, the defense lawyer asked to dismiss some witness statements about the events that occurred on June 26, 1994 in Miramar.
Ibar was sentenced to death in 2000, but the Florida Supreme Court annulled that sentence in 2016, considering the evidence against him “very weak” and ordered a repeat trial.
Ibar’s defense alleges in this appeal that the “numerous irregularities and biased decisions incurred by Judge Dennis Bailey” in the 2019 trial violated his “constitutional rights”.
Pablo Ibar, now 50 years old, was recently transferred from the Okeechobee prison (central Florida) to a private prison, where, according to the association, he has found better conditions and carries out various activities, while starting a course of welder.
