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The Supreme Court will decide in the coming months the judicial future of the crime of the widow of former CAM president Vicente Sala after the abrupt closure he suffered seven months ago when a popular jury declared his son-in-law, Miguel López, not guilty of having given him two shots to the head.

The popular court changed the meaning of its verdict in just 48 hours after the first failed, guilty, for lack of motivation. This fact, together with the destruction of the first act, caused a sonorous fracture between the magistrate Francisca Bru and the accusations that, now, the Supreme will have to settle.

The first-born of Mari Carmen Martínez - who exercises the private accusation and who, against his three sisters, is convinced that his brother-in-law pulled the trigger -, will file an appeal next week before the High Court through his lawyer Francisco Ruiz-Marco .

The judicial tsunami that caused the destruction of the first guilty verdict and the different interpretation of the law between the president of the court and the accusations - the judge reproaches her position, since in her judgment she could influence the jury's decision by asking them , they think, an almost professional precision commanding him to rule on the unproven facts-, they paid two resources that can be dynamite for the process because both the prosecutor José Llor and the lawyer were pursuing the repetition of the trial.

This was stated in his first appeal before the Valencian Superior Court of Justice (TSJCV) who, despite noticing certain anomalies, supported the magistrate and endorsed the sentence.

During the trial for the crime of the widow of former President Vicente Sala it was clear that neither party - defense, on the one hand, and accusations on the other - was going to settle for the verdict.

However, what could not be foreseen were the dimensions of the judicial war that unleashed circumstances for many "unusual" such as the destruction of the act. The prosecutor and Ruiz-Marco were very hard on the lawyer of the Administration of Justice, Manuel Cerdán , for having gotten rid of the first verdict. That two days later the jury changed its position, caused a battery of misgivings that the accusations reflected in its resources and that now reaches the Supreme.

The ruling states that it was an unknown person who shot Mari Carmen Martínez on the afternoon-night of December 9, 2016 in the car wash of the family dealer that her son-in-law managed. The sentence supposed the triumph of the defense thesis over those of the accusations and those of the Police, who have always maintained that it was López who shot Sala's widow because he wanted to remove her from the business and that after shooting her, he rushed out of the dealership of cars to your house.

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