Almería, (EFE).- The defense of the soccer player Santi Mina has announced that he will appeal the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) that confirms the four-year sentence of the Celta striker for sexually abusing a woman in July 2017 in Mojácar (Almería), while the private prosecution will request his entry into preventive detention.
The lawyer Fátima Magdalena Rodríguez, who represents the soccer player Santi Mina, has told EFE that she will present an appeal before the Supreme Court (TS). For which you have a period of five days.
After expressing his disappointment with the sentence, he has assured that they will “fight as before.” And he has maintained that Santi Mina, who has renewed one more season at Celta, will continue in Spain at the “disposal of justice”, “without any fear”. And in a “respectful way with the room”.
For his part, the lawyer Iván Bolaño, who exercises the private prosecution on behalf of the victim, has told EFE that he has yet to analyze “in detail” and “in detail” the sentence of the TSJA. Before deciding if he appeals it in cassation before the TS.
“What we have practically certain is that, surely at the end of August, due to a matter on the judicial agenda, we will request entry into preventive detention, taking into account the ratification by the TSJA of the sentence of four years in prison,” he has advanced.
Reduction of compensation
Regarding the reduction of the compensation to his client from 50,000 to 25,000 euros, Bolaño points out that the High Court has followed a “legal homogenizing criterion”. And he has “taken other sentences that he has considered similar or homogeneous with this case.”
“Moral compensation is very difficult to quantify because they are ethereal damages, but money was never the priority. In fact, if they had removed all the compensation and raised the sentence to 8 years, we would be more than satisfied ”, she assured.
He considers that the decision of the TSJA is “very well founded”, although he does not share the criterion regarding compensation.
“If we want to homogenize a person who had a mere traffic accident. And the injuries that have been accredited that the victim had with the points of sequelae. With the duration of healing, with the affectation of daily life quite severe, it would have amounted to 116,000 euros ”, he has maintained.
Regarding the elimination of “superiority” and the precision in the ruling that there was no type of consent, he assures that the TSJA is in the same line as the Provincial Court. Although the wording of the trial judgment could “lead to confusion.”
In this sense, he has pointed out that “it could be understood from the wording of the facts of the Provincial Court. That there was consent vitiated by environmental intimidation, that is, by superiority. Although what the TSJA is saying is that at no time was there consent of any kind, ”he clarified. EFE
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