NICARAGUAN COURT OVERTURNS SENTENCE
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- A Nicaraguan appeals court on 12/17 Monday
overturned the conviction of a U.S. man sentenced to 30 years in
prison for killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend.
Eric Volz, of Nashville, Tenn., was immediately freed from a prison in
the town of Granada, 25 miles east of the capital, Managua. His
whereabouts were not immediately known.
Nicaraguan Attorney General Julio Centeno Gomez told Channel 12
television he would appeal the decision to the nation's highest court.
"This seems unheard of to us," Centeno said.
While overturning Volz's conviction, the appeals court upheld the
30-year sentence of his alleged accomplice, Julio Martin Chamorro.
Both were sentenced in February for the death of Doris Ivania Jimenez,
who was found raped and strangled in November 2006 in a clothing store
she owned in the town of San Juan del Sur.
1 comments:
So, where is Eric now? In a hospital in Nicaragua? With his passport, can he cut out or does he have to wait for the judge to sign the order? I'd get out of Dodge before something else comes up.
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