The Zaragoza Court acquits a man accused of sexual assault by a woman who did not appear at trial

2023-06-14 16:00:00

The Provincial Court of Zaragoza has acquitted a 47-year-old man of the crime of sexual assault of which a woman accused him, but, in the end, she did not appear at trial.

The judges of Section I understand that “in the present case the issuance of an acquittal proceeds since the evidence carried out in the act of trial is not considered sufficient to undermine the principle of presumption of innocence that protects the accused” since the The victim’s statement constituted the sole and essential evidence for the prosecution. They add to this that “the previous statements of the complainant, made before the Police or before the Investigating Court, have no probative value since they were not ratified in the act of the oral trial.