Pablo Ibar’s attorney asks Florida Court of Appeals to overturn his life sentence affirmation

Pablo Ibar’s attorney, Joe Nascimento, has asked the Florida Court of Appeals to to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Judicial District of Florida. to overturn its ruling of April 19 in which it upheld the life sentence for the Basque-born inmate.

Ibar, nephew of the boxer Urtain, was convicted of a triple murder committed in June 1994 in the town of Miramar, near Miami, when two armed individuals entered a villa owned by Casimir Sucharski, owner of a nightclub, and killed him and young Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers.

As reported by the Pablo Ibar-Fair Trial Association, the lawyer has asked the judicial body to. to “re-examine” the sentence and detail in writing the arguments that led him to adopt his decision, “which would condemn Ibar to live in prison for the rest of his days”. Nascimento believes that the judges who have intervened in this case have made “mistakes” when evaluating the evidence.

The appeal was filed this Thursday at the judicial headquarters, located in West Palm Beach, near Miami. This procedural step takes place after the Appeals Chamber of the Court of Appeals rejected last April the arguments that Pablo Ibar’s lawyer put forward in the hearing of the appeal held by videoconference on March 28.

The counsel then requested the revocation of the life sentence and the holding of a new trial, “this time with all legal guarantees.” To this end, he put forward twelve reasons, among which he stressed “the irregularities” that were committed during the trial. and the decisions of “absolute partiality” made by Judge Dennis Bailey.

The Fourth District Court of Appeals, however, ruled against the appeal. The Pablo Ibar-Fair Trial Association has pointed out that “the most hopeless” was that it “demolished the postulates of the defense, without even offering an explanation as to why it rejected them”.