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For three and a half years, the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá has been studying the appeal filed by the Attorney General’s Office and the civil party against the ruling that acquitted Laura Moreno and Jessy Quintero for his alleged participation and knowledge in the events surrounding the death of the young man Luis Andrés Colmenares Escobar on October 30, 2010.
In recent days, the case He moved again after a photo was published on social networks in which one of the sections of the autopsy made by the Institute of Legal Medicine appeared, in which the evidence of a blow to the head of the young university student appeared.
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This image revived the discussion for what is considered one of the most mediatic court cases in the recent history of the country. Two poles are presented in the debate: on the one hand, those who argue that Colmenares was attacked with a heavy item that caused his death; in the other, those who say that this test reveals a blow produced by a fall.
Those who hold the first claim are the relatives of Luis Andrés Colmenares, arguing that various evidence collected at the time by the Attorney General’s Office and presented at the trial allowed to infer that the young man received a strong impact that was decisive in his death.
For Luis Alonso Colmenares, it is necessary that the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court analyze all technical tests and expert testimonies that her son was beaten on the head with an object.
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For the father of Luis Andrés, in the development of the investigation several testimonies were received from forensic experts and experts They concluded that the death was violent and was never an accident.
The Superior Court of Bogotá reached the same conclusion in the ruling against Carlos Cardenas, accused of being the determiner of the death of Luis Andrés Colmenares.
On the other side are the lawyers of the two defendants who point out that in the trial That went ahead for three years, it was determined that Luis Andrés fell into the rainwater channel of the El Virrey park in Bogotá and his death was an accident.
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Sources close to the defense of Laura Moreno and Jessy Quintero They indicated that the homicide theory was discussed during the two trials that followed and it was concluded that the death was an accident.
