Two and a half months after its entry into force, the law of

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has already benefited more than a hundred sex offenders.

The provincial hearings confirmed yesterday new sentence revisions to adjust the sentences imposed at the time to the lightest ones provided for in the legal reform promoted by the Ministry of Equality.

The balance to date is 108 sentence reductions in sentences that were already firm or that were in the appeal phase before the higher courts or the Supreme Court.

To this figure should be added the new sentences to which the reform is already directly applied and which in some cases specify that the penalty imposed with the previous regulations would have been harsher.

The Court of Alicante, which had already lowered two sentences in recent weeks, announced another 13 cases yesterday.

One of them involved the release of the convicted person due to a two-year reduction in his sentence for sexual assault (from nine to seven years).

Five cases agreed to by the headquarters in Jerez de la Frontera of the Audiencia de Cádiz were also confirmed yesterday.

In three cases the descent entailed the release.

Another release was agreed by the Badajoz Court, which lowered the sentence of a man convicted of attempted rape by 17 months (from four years and three months to two years and 10 months).

The last known review this Tuesday corresponds to the Audiencia de Navarra in what is its first decision of this type.

A sentence of seven years for sexual abuse is left in five years and three months applying the most favorable new law.

The decision of the Audiencia de Navarra means that there is only one community left in which there have been no sentence reviews.

It is about La Rioja, whose superior prosecutor indicated that he aligned himself with the thesis of the General Prosecutor's Office that the penalties that can still be imposed with the new law be maintained.

Another known release yesterday occurred in the Basque Country, where the Álava Court applied the decision of the Supreme Court to lower a sentence for sexual abuse by applying the legal reform to the case.

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