2024-07-04 19:23:44
The Supreme Court released Manuel Alvarez and only ordered him to remain in prison nationwide and to be prohibited from approaching the victims.
The Supreme Court has revoked the preventive detention of oncologist Manuel Alvarez, after ruling in favor of the appeal for protection filed by his defense, which seeks to declare null and void the trial that sentenced him to seven years in prison for sexual abuse against two of his patients.
Last May, the former head of Oncology at the Las Condes Clinic was found guilty and sentenced by the Third Oral Court in Santiago, which confirmed the doctor’s repeated abuses.
The defense of Manuel Alvarez, who He was convicted of similar crimes in the Magallanes Region, In her appeal for protection, she questioned whether her freedom should be considered a danger to society, and also accused the judges who ordered her pretrial detention of not listening to her arguments.
This was accepted by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, which ruled that This precautionary measure cannot be decreed “only by looking at the background and arguments of fact and rights invoked by the petitioner, but rather, necessarily, they also impose on him the duty to express the reasons.”
Along these lines, the Supreme Court stressed that “the contested resolution contains no argumentative development and lacks the basis expected for one that provides for the most intense precautionary measure that our legal system considers.”
In this way, he released Manuel Alvarez and He only decreed his national roots and a ban on approaching the victims.
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