Justice The CGPJ raises to 721 the reductions in sentences for rapists by the Law of 'only yes is yes'

The courts have agreed to at least 721 sentence reductions in application of the ‘only yes is yes’ Law, according to data collected up to March 1 by the General Council of the Judiciary of the Supreme Court, the Superior Courts of Justice and the Provincial Courts.

These resolutions have led to at least 74 releases, noting that not all judicial bodies have provided this information, according to legal sources.

The Permanent Commission has agreed in a meeting held this Thursday that this information will be updated periodically and made public through the Communications Office of the General Council of the Judiciary.

The first publication of global and provisional data on the reductions in sentences and releases of sexual offenders had generated internal tensions within the governing body of judges, where some members of the sector closest to the Government showed their reluctance that these data were provided to Public opinion.

However, from the CGPJ they admit that the global data on matters already reviewed, in process or pending review by the judicial bodies is not available. Some courts have expressed the difficulty that the strike maintained by the lawyers of the Administration of Justice supposes to be able to offer or update this data.

However, the judicial bodies of Madrid have reported that up to the data submission date -February 16- they had processed 84% of the resolutions subject to revision of which they were aware, while the Supreme Court has reported that There are 224 pending appeals in which the parties have been notified so that they can make allegations about the incidence of LO 1O/2022 in the specific matter, 26 having been resolved up to the date of data delivery.

On the other hand, the data offered by the Judiciary does not include the sentence reviews that the Criminal Courts, competent to prosecute crimes against sexual freedom punishable by up to five years in prison, may have processed, given the difficulty of collecting this information. of single-member bodies.

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