Mexican Judge Denies Release of 100 Autdefensas

By Robert Farago

Republished with permission from borderlandbeat.com

The Sixth District Judge located in Uruapan, Horacio Ortiz González [above], denied the release of the 70 autodefensas who were arrested along with José Manuel Mireles, the former coordinator of the autodefensas and communitarios in the state, on June 27, 2014, in the community of La Mira, Michoacán. They are accused for the illegal possession of arms for the exclusive use by the Mexican Army. Likewise, the judge refused to release 30 more autodefensas arrested on May 9, 2014 . . .

Ignacio Mendoza, the lawyer for hundreds of autodefensas, says that the judge acted “cowardly and narrow” because he resorted to the same legal argument that allowed the freedom of Cemeí Verdia, who was accused for the same offense, and released on July 28.

The litigant asserts that the argument allowed the release of José Manuel Farfán, an autodefensa from the municipality of Turicato on February 2015.

The lawyer of Mireles and Verdía, the latter still imprisoned for the crime of murder, states that the release was achieved in the case because “they cannot enforce gun laws in Michoacán in that time period because of the rule of law was broken for civilians and authorities.”

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Source:: Truth About Guns