The Court orders the release of the former director of the Altiplano; "There is no evidence that he helped" El Chapo ""

A federal court granted an injunction and ordered the immediate release of Valentín Cárdenas Lerma former director of the prison maximum security of Altiplano, in the State of Mexico, accused by the Attorney General of the Republic of the Capo Escape Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán .

Olga Maria Josefina Ojeda Arellano Magistrate of the Sixth Unitary Court of the Second Circuit, determined that the PGR did not prove that Cárdenas facilitated the escape of the cartel leader Sinaloa July 11, 2015.

The amparo is to fund and order the chief of the fourth unitary court of the second circuit to make the arrest warrant unsubstantial and, on the contrary, to dismiss him and issue a writ of liberty for lack of elements to be continued (with the reservations of the law) in favor of Valentín Cár

Although the sentence may be challenged the reforms of the law allow Cárdenas to obtain his freedom immediately.

Alberto del Río, a lawyer of the former civil servant, told MILENIO that under the provisions of section 77 of the Amparo Act, the amparo court was asked the competent magistrate that he immediately comply with the amparo decision (without having to wait for it to be enforceable), three-day period referred to in Article 192 of the same law because it is legal and favorable to the plaintiff's interests.

The precept mentions that in matters of criminal order, an order of apprehension or writs that establish provisional measures or impose provisional measures limiting freedom for crimes that the law does not consider to be serious or for which the informal preventive detention does not proceed as follows: to the applicable procedural legislation, the judgment granting the amparo will have immediate effects, even if it can be revoked by the appeal for review.

Unless the claim by which the plaintiff's legal situation is resolved in the sense of subjecting him to criminal proceedings, in accordance with the applicable procedural law, and the amparo is granted for formal vice.

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