Mexico: No compensation for wrongly jailed Indian

PGR, CALDERON and his MAFIA.....ASS HOLES!!!!

Jacinta Francisco Marcial, a 47-year-old Otomi Indian, shortly upon her release from prison. She had originally been given a 21-year sentence on charges of kidnapping six federal police officers. Her conviction was based in part on a newspaper photograph. (Marco Ugarte / Associated Press)

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Tuesday there would be no compensation for an Indian market vendor who was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and spent three years in prison in a case that provoked an international protest.
Jacinta Francisco Marcial was released last week after prosecutors decided not to contest an appeal of her 21-year sentence. London-based rights group Amnesty International demanded that she be compensated for the time spent locked up.
The Attorney General's Office said in a statement that she would not be compensated because prosecutors never proclaimed her innocence, deciding only that there was "reasonable doubt" in her conviction.
Marcial and others were convicted of holding federal agents hostage during a market raid to confiscate pirated goods. Marcial denied involvement in detaining the agents.
Mexico's Indians, many of whom don't speak Spanish, have a right to an interpreter in legal proceedings under current law, but none was apparently provided to Marcial, an Otomi Indian, during the initial stages of her trial.
Prosecutors said a review of her case turned up "contradictions in the statements of federal agents," with some witnesses saying they saw Marcial at the scene and others saying they didn't.

No indemnizarán a Jacinta

La PGR se niega a la reparación del daño a la indígena otomí que estuvo injustamente presa por tres años

MÉXICO, D. F., 22 de septiembre (APRO) La Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) descartó hoy de manera rotunda reparar los daños ocasionados a Jacinta Francisco Marcial, la indígena otomí que recientemente dejó la cárcel de Querétaro, luego de permanecer presa tres años, acusada del secuestro de seis agentes federales en 2006.En un oficio enviado a la Cámara de Diputados, el director general de Normatividad de la PGR, Jorge Alberto Lara Rivera, destaca que la dependencia no presentó conclusiones acusatorias en contra de Jacinta, no por la ausencia de imputaciones, sino porque éstas fueron afectadas por nuevos elementos que condujeron a la “duda razonable”.
El documento señala que la duda razonable “no elimina jurídicamente las incriminaciones en su contra y, de forma ineludible, en el asunto que nos ocupa existen delitos cometidos en agravio de otros ciudadanos”.Más aún, la PGR sostiene que con las pruebas existentes hasta el momento no se fundamenta la duda razonable en el caso de Alberta Alcántara Juan y Teresa González Cornelio, indígenas acusadas del mismo ilícito que Jacinta, por lo que el proceso sigue su curso legal.Añade que un juez de distrito será el que determine mediante sentencia si las coprocesadas Alberta Alcántara y Teresa González deben recibir sentencia condenatoria o no, por lo que no corresponde a la PGR decretar el cierre de instrucción de la causa.La PGR envió el oficio a los diputados, luego que el pleno solicitara que se analizaran mecanismos de reparación del daño a favor de las tres indígenas, acusadas de haber secuestrado a seis agentes federales en Querétaro.