Pablo Ibar asks to annul the trial in which he was sentenced to life imprisonment

The Spanish-American Pablo Ibar,

for three murders of which he pleads innocent and for which he was sentenced to death, requested this Tuesday before a US court of appeals the revocation of the life sentence that was imposed in 2019 and the holding of a new trial.

Before the three judges of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth District of Florida, based in the city of West Palm Beach (120 km from Miami),

Ibar's lawyer, pointed out that the judicial process that ended was not "fair". in 2019 with the verdict that sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison.

He highlighted that

and that throughout the judicial process there was carelessness with the pieces used as evidence.

To a question from Judge Melanie May, the lawyer referred to the small DNA sample belonging to his client in a blue T-shirt found in the house in Miramar (Florida) where Casimir Sucharsky, owner of a nightclub, was shot and killed. and the models Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers, in 1994

The lawyer alluded to the verdict of an expert who pointed out that the "quality of the sample was below the standards" and stressed that a video recorded by a camera shows a man who rubs his face, touches the garment repeatedly and he wipes his mouth with it.

Those DNA samples "do not match Ibar's," he asserted.

Before the panel of judges, which in addition to May is made up of judges

and

, the defense lawyer asked to dismiss some witness statements about the events that occurred on June 26, 1994 in Miramar.

Ibar was sentenced to death in 2000, but the Florida Supreme Court annulled that sentence in 2016, considering the evidence against him "very weak" and ordered a repeat trial.

Ibar's defense alleges in this appeal that the

incurred by Judge Dennis Bailey" in the 2019 trial violated his "constitutional rights."

prison

(central Florida) to a private prison, where, according to the association, he has found better conditions and carries out various activities, while starting

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