Tribunal that condemned Rios Montt will not continue the trial process
27 de Mayo
The Court of High Risk Crimes, where Presiding Judge Yassmin Barrios had sentenced retired military Jose Efrain Rios Montt to 80 years in prison, declined to continue with the trial, so it will be transferred to another court.
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The Supreme Court shall appoint new judges to serve on the court and continue with the trial from as it was before 19 April.
http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/Tribunal-tramitar-accion-Rios-Montt_0_926907493.html
On May 10, General Efraín Ríos Montt, former military leader of Guatemala, was found guilty of overseeing the deliberate killings by the armed forces of at least 1,771 members of the Maya Ixil population during his 1982-83 rule. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
Last Monday, May 20, Guatemala’s constitutional court overturned the conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity, throwing out all proceedings in his case since April 19. That was the day the Ríos Montt was temporarily left without a legal defense as his lawyer was briefly expelled from the courtroom after he accused the presiding judge of bias against him.
All the testimonies and witness statements heard from that point onwards will have to be delivered again, in addition to the concluding statements from both sides. There’s no indication of when that will happen.
This is so obviously a charade and a farce that it would be hilarious, except that we are talking about a brutal dictator who on May 10 was convicted of ordering the deaths of almost 2,000 Maya.
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http://www.care2.com/causes/brutal-dictator-rios-montt-gets-off-on-a-technicality.html
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On the one hand, you can't have heads of state held responsible for their actions while in office, that would be a terrible precedent, and it could cause the actions of other people to be called into question too. 
On the other hand, at this point, anything else will get them laughed at and ridiculed, as too obviously rigged, and we already have lots of trouble with our Latin American satrapies because of the Bushites fondness for being obvious bullies.
It would be most convenient at this point if he died of old age or something, then they can try to just sweep it all under the rug, let things cool down.
... just when you think they might be getting things together down there, their crooked crony dominated Supreme Court steps in for Monster Montt. Just goes to show... no justice, no peace. 
