The judges of Justice and peace chamber of the Superior Court of Bogota denied the freedom request made by the postulates Wilmer Morelo Castro, José Manuel Hernández Caldera and Jose Ruben Pena Tobon, former members of “Vencedores de Arauca”, AUC block.
The judge determination is that the alternative postulates penalty is subject to the parameters of the Law 975 of 2005, which speaks of eight years of imprisonment in penitentiary, which has not been fulfilled.
The penalty amount must be accounted and run from the nomination date by the national Government and in accordance with transitional juistice rules and others exist. In this case, the former paramilitaries were nominated in the year 2007, by which the legal term has not been fulfilled. The Defense filed an appeal before the Supreme Court of Justice.