His request for a postponement of the sentence was rejected by the sentencing department of the Bastia court of appeal. Joseph-Thomas said “Tommy
His request for a postponement of the sentence was rejected by the sentencing department of the Bastia court of appeal.
Joseph-Thomas said “Tommy” Recco will remain in prison. His request for suspension of the sentence for health reasons was rejected on Tuesday. One of the deans of prisoners in France, 86 years old, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1983 for two triple murders.
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An appeal by Joseph-Thomas Recco, who has already filed a number of early release requests in the past, was rejected by the Bastia Court of Appeal sentencing panel, the chief prosecutor at the Bastia court said. Bastia’s appeal and one of his two lawyers, Jean-Sebastien de Casalta.
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A future appeal to the supreme court?
The eight-year-old boy born on May 10, 1934 and held in the Borgo prison (Upper Corsica), challenged the first instance ruling of December 2019, which had already dismissed his request for postponement of the sentence. “I will probably have to appeal to the supreme court,” said Jean-Sebastien de Casalta, who stated that Joseph-Thomas Recco “is weakened, this (has) many conditions that characterize and (d) served more than 50 years in custody”.
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“Deep down, I had no illusions, because he continues to deny the facts,” said his second lawyer, Alain Lhote, adding that in terms of conditional sentences, “the jurisprudence provides that medical experts consider that the medical condition is incompatible with the arrest.”
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The lawyers will explore the possibility of appealing to the European Court of Human Rights “because some European countries have not been familiar with this type of tenure for more than 50 years,” added Me Lhote. At the hearing on June 2, the independent lawyer asked for confirmation of the first instance decision. The civil parties also opposed this release request.
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The 80-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1983 by the Var Jury in Draguignan for two triple murders, which he always denied: those of three cashiers at a supermarket in Béziers (Hérault) on December 22, 1979, and a girl, her father and one of her neighbors, taken to Carqueiranne (Var) on January 18, 1980. In 1962, he had already been sentenced to death for the murder of his godfather, but General De Gaulle pardoned him. it was changed to life in prison. It was published in 1977.
Update Date: Jul 7, 2020, 12:58 PM
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