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Article: PERU: WHERE DRUG LORDS WALK FREE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- March 15, 2007
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Angel Pez
Inter Press Service English News Wire
03-15-2007
LIMA, Mar. 14, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Releasing alleged or convicted
drug traffickers from prison is becoming common practice in the
Peruvian justice system.
John Salazar Paredes, prosecuted by the anti-drugs crime unit
for allegedly heading a money-laundering racket for drug
traffickers, walked free in early March after less than a year in
prison. The crime he is accused of carries a sentence of 25 years
behind bars, without any sentencing benefits.
A strategy regularly used by drug traffickers' defence lawyers
is to apply to certain judges for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming
lack of evidence for their clients' imprisonment. Habeas ...