The National Chamber of Criminal and Correctional Courtesy, run by judges Patricia Llerena, Jorge Luis Rimondi and Gustavo Bruzzone, upheld the life imprisonment for Gabriel David Marino for the crime of trans activist Diana Sacayán, although he denied the figure of cross-court.
As Télam reported, the ruling ruled “to reject the appeal brought by Marino’s defence and to upify the sentence imposed, with the mere rectification of the legal subsuntion, which must fall within Article 80(11) of the Penal Code – a homicide qualified for having mediated gender-based violence.” The cameramen overturned the aggravating “travesticide” of the sentence handed down by the Criminal Oral Court (TOC) 4 in June 2018, when they considered Marino to have acted out of “hatred of gender identity” of the trans leader, in an unprecedented court ruling. Following the decision, the Minister of Women, Genders and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, stated on Twitter that the ruling “evidences the lack of gender perspective in our country’s justice administration. The need for transformation is urgent.” It is inadmissible that there are judicial practices such as those of Judges Rizzi and Anzoátegui, which continue to overwhelm women’s rights and ignore CSJN rulings,” she said.
It is inadmissible that there are judicial practices such as those of Judges Rizzi and Anzoátegui, which continue to overwhelm women’s rights and ignore CSJN rulings. — Eli Gomez Alcorta (@EliGAlcorta)
October 6, 2020
Sacayán, who was 39, was born in Tucumán and was an active militant for sexual rights, was murdered inside the department of Rivadavia Avenue at 6,700 and her body was found two days later gagged and tied to her feet and hands. The autopsy revealed that the victim had 27 injuries to his body, 13 of them caused by a 20-centimeter blade knife that was kidnapped at the crime scene.
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