"You will remember me", sentence by which they will lower the sentence to a man who stabbed his ex in front of his children – 27/11/2018

The Superior Court of Justice changed the sentence by inflicting a man who stabbed his ex-wife in an attempt to feminicide. In principle, he was sentenced to 12 years but with the new decision he will have a much smaller sentence. I could even receive a sentence of 3 years, which is excarcelable.

Brian Petrillán stabbed his wife 5 times in front of their children and left her unable to walk normally. He was sentenced for attempted femicide to 12 years in prison. But now the Superior Court of Justice has lowered the injury test because it maintains that there was no intent to kill.

The highest court in the province has renamed the event as "serious injury aggravated by a situation of gender-based violence". The resolution is signed by Ministers Miguel Donnet, Mario Vivas and Alejandro Panizzi. With this lower score, the sentence will be reduced, so that the case has been referred to court for a new sentencing hearing. The punishment waiting it will be between 3 and 10 years old.

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The prosecutor, María Angélica Cárcano, explained that "this case is the first conviction for attempted femicide in the city, as part of the amendment of the law.With this decision of the Superior Court of Justice, a new hearing will to be fixed, where a new sentence will have to be requested.The qualification that was available has a minimum of three years. "

On the night of June 11, 2016, Juan Braian Petrillán went to the home of Erika Gallego, who was sleeping with his minor children. He kicked the door and hit five stab wounds "causing serious injury, significant blood loss," the sentence says. Petrillán told him "You will remember me". The aggression was in front of their children. He was even one of the small children who had left his house and had warned his grandmother of what had happened. The woman found "the children crying and her daughter lying in a pool of blood, so she was immediately transferred to the hospital," says the court record.

At the trial, Petrillán was sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempted femicide. It was the first sentence for this qualification that occurred in Puerto Madryn. The sentence has been confirmed by the criminal chamber.

Gallegos suffered "A vital and serious commitment". The forensic body presented a report with the lesions: "one on the left thigh which cuts the femoral vein, the deep femoral artery and the superficial femoral arteries; in the section of the right thigh, the saphenous vein, the quadriceps muscle and impacts against the femur bone; left leg two wounds to the perforation of the lateral and posterior face with involvement of the twin muscles. Oblique cut of the left wrist ". Injuries made him disabled to walk.

The ministers took up the arguments of public defender Custodio Gómez, who claimed that "the pushes (directed) on Gallego's legs indicated that his intention was to wound, not to kill." It would have been different if the blows had been directed from waist to the neck or chest. "

Depending on the decision, the expression "You will remember me" it meant that her intention was not to commit suicide, but "in what way would she remember him" if she was dead. In this sense, magistrates appreciated "the attitude of the author during the execution of the act, which has not progressed before committing suicide, but it has said he would remember him ". For the judges, this also indicated that it was not his intention to kill the person in the room where there was a minor whom Petrillán saw, who could report him. badault or seek help, and the fact that the accused had stopped the badault without mediating the act or the action of a third party ".

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