Judge Ángel Hurtado, an instructor of the open case against the State Attorney General for a crime of revelation of secrets linked to the couple of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has agreed on Monday to suspend the procedure until the Appeals Chamber resolves all the resources presented by the defenses and accusations against decisions of the judge. for the defenses and the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office against the processing of Álvaro García Ortiz and the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, considering that there are no indications to support that judge’s step.
The decision that Hurtado said Monday only makes official a position that the magistrate had already adopted. Once he dictated (the equivalent of processing and that means closing the instruction), the judge is only pending to issue the oral trial opening car to sit on the bench to García Ortiz and Rodríguez. But Hurtado has preferred to postpone that decisive step waiting for the response that from the Appeals room to the pending resources, with the aim of preventing a possible admission of any of them to question the following writings of the instructor.
In a car dictated on Monday, the magistrate accepts the request of the provincial chief prosecutor to freeze the cause and explains that, although the law does not contemplate it, it is appropriate to do so “for reasons of prudence.” “It seems reasonable that the objections raised in an instructional phase should be resolved, which forces to be waiting for the decision of the appeal resources filed against the instructor’s records with which he has discreted,” says the judge.
The magistrate argues this decision “to avoid the problems that could arise” if the cause is not paralyzed. “In addition, it would not cease to be a certain contradiction, in accordance with the principle of unity of the ordering, that what the law contemplates for one procedure cannot be applied to another in the same situation, while, this, this, endorses the reasons of prudence that we aimed to prevent the cause of the cause, until seeing what results from the examination, by the appeal room.”
