…testimony demonstrating that, in one instance, soldiers operating in the Ixil region had reported to the senior officers that the known guerrilla elements they were supposedly pursuing had left the…

…trial, nearly one hundred witnesses provided testimony. Ninety-four of the witnesses said at least one family member died at the hands of the army. Eighty-three referred to instances in which…

…defense evidence. The Constitutional Court recognized this authority as exclusively within the competence of the pre-trial, or first instance, judge. (In Guatemala, one judge oversees preliminary pre-trial matters and a…

…witnesses—discovering in one instance that one of the witnesses had not lived at the address provided by the defense for three years. Garcia Gudiel was given permission to leave the…

…his head of military intelligence Rodriguez Sanchez for genocide and crimes against humanity may resume after a hearing convened on Friday by Judge Carol Patricia Flores. Judge Flores, a first-instance…

…of the trial. The criminal trial has been stalled for one week following the intervention of Judge Carol Patricia Flores, a first-instance judge overseeing pre-trial matters. On April 18, Judge…

…and 1983. However, in a bewildering turn of events, their trial was abruptly halted last Thursday, despite imminent closing arguments, when a judge of a first-instance court ordered the trial…

…in this instance. In the press conference, Guzman explained that the Court rejected CALDH’s challenge as improperly filed leaving, for the time being, as legally binding (vigente) Judge Flores’ ruling…