António Cotrim / Lusa
Pedro Delille, lawyer for José Sócrates.
Pedro Delille continues to be the former prime minister’s lawyer in the so-called secondary process of Operation Marquis.
The news emerged earlier this month: Pedro Delille stopped being José Sócrates’ lawyer.
The lawyer serving as defender of the former prime minister in the Operation Marquis trial.
Delille spoke at the time about a “joke trial” and justified the resignation with “deontological reasons”, after, the previous week, the group of judges decided to report Delille’s professional conduct to the Bar Association, having assumed that the session would start later and having arrived late.
Sócrates since Pedro Delille was not his lawyer. You have even mentioned him as your “previous lawyer”. In fact, a new lawyer: José Preto.
But, After all, Pedro Delille continues to be José Sócrates’ lawyer. Not in the main process, but in the so-called secondary process of Operation Marquis.
O advances with this information and adds that Delille is try to join this process is secondary to the main process of Operation Marquis.
This secondary process arose because, in an instructional decision, judge Ivo Rosa ruled Sócrates and Carlos Santos Silva only for three crimes money laundering and three counts of document forgery; yet waiting for passage to the trial phase.
And, in this process, there is no resignation from Pedro Delille, who continues to defend José Sócrates. Just last week, on the 20th, there was a record of a digital signature by Delille in this case.
If the lawyer manages to join the two processes, the trial should be delayed even further – remember that José Sócrates was detained 11 years ago.
