The Courts have also decreed six releases since the law came into force, according to data from the CGPJ
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 24 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Superior Court of Xustiza of Galicia (TSXG) and the four Galician Provincial Courts have applied 57 sentence reductions since the ‘only s is s law’ came into force on October 7, 2022.
This is reflected in the data provided by the Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) until November 1. It also points out that the Courts decreed six releases under that rule.
Specifically, the TSXG reviewed eight cases, and agreed to reduce the sentence in five of them. No releases are reflected in the CGPJ report.
The Galician Provincial Courts have reviewed 117 cases under the also known as ‘law of consent’, of which they have reduced the sentences in 52. Likewise, they have decreed six excarrelations.
In more detail, the Court of A Corua has reviewed 53 cases and reduced 17 sentences. She is the only provincial without releases. Lugo has reexamined 10 cases, with seven sentence reductions. In addition, two defendants have been released from prison, the same number recorded by the Courts of Ourense and Pontevedra in this regard.
The Court of Ourense has reviewed 13 cases and reduced nine sentences; while the pontevedrs has re-examined 41 cases and reduced 19 sentences.
NATIONWIDE, 1,233 SENTENCE REDUCTIONS
Throughout Spain, the Judiciary has updated the number of beneficiaries of the ‘yes is yes law’, raising sentence reductions to 1,233 and releases to 126 in application of the rule that came into force on October 7, 2022. The reductions represent 31.4% of the cases reviewed.
The data represents a slight increase in the number of reductions and releases, which last September stood at 1,205 reductions and 121 releases.
According to the data provided, the Supreme Court has agreed to 32 sentence reductions – sentences handed down in an appeal – which represents 20.3% of the reviews that this court has faced. As for the National Court, with a single reduction, it represents 14.3% of the reviews.
In the TSJ the number of reductions is 182 and 10 releases, 32.6% of the cases reviewed; while the Provincial Courts are where the most cases of reductions are recorded, with 1,018 reductions and 116 releases, 31.8% of the cases reviewed.
The CGPJ offers the disaggregated data of the different TSJ, and the one of Madrid stands out at the top of the reductions with 59, followed by Andaluca with 25, and the Balearic Islands and Catalua with 16. They are followed by the TSJ of Asturias 10 and that of the Community Valenciana with 8 sentence reductions, Castilla-La Mancha with 8, Navarra 8, and Aragon and the Canary Islands with 6.
The TSJ that have applied the least reductions are Cantabria (0), La Rioja (3), Castilla y León (2), Pas Vasco and Extremadura (3), Murcia (4) and Galicia (5). Regarding releases, Navarra 5, Aragón 3, Andaluca 1 and Pas Vasco 1.
The governing body of the judges clarifies that these data from the TSJ correspond to resolutions issued in appeals filed either against lower court rulings or against resolutions issued by provincial courts in the process of reviewing sentences.
THE PROVINCIAL COURTS
Regarding the provincial hearings, the one in Madrid has reduced sentences in 130 cases out of a total of 493 reviews; that of Barcelona 67 reductions of 162 reviewed sentences; that of Valencia 57; that of Alicante 55 reductions; Cadiz 50; Biscay 42; Balearic Islands 48; and Seville 41. Of them, the one that has carried out the most releases has been Madrid with 19 followed by Cádiz with 8; Seville, Balearic Islands and Vizcaya with 6; and Barcelona, Burgos, Castellón, Murcia and Valencia with 5.
On the other hand, the audiences that have applied the least reductions are those of Vila (0), Segovia (1), Soria (1), La Rioja (1), Cuenca (2) and Palencia (2). Regarding releases, in the lower part are Valladolid, Teruel, Toledo, Soria, Segovia, Navarra, Lleida, León, La Rioja, Jan, Huesca, Guipzcoa, Cuenca, Cáceres, Vila, Albacete and A Corua with no releases .
The CGPJ indicates, however, that the data offered does not include any sentencing reviews that may have been processed by the Criminal Courts, competent to prosecute crimes against sexual freedom punishable by up to five years in prison, given the difficulty of collecting this information. of single-person bodies.
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