After a favorable decision by the Court of Barcelona in the case of an alleged rape, the defense of Daniel Alves received authorization this Tuesday to hire a psychologist to examine the accuser of the crime.
The Brazilian soccer player is preventively arrested in Spain since January 2023accused of raping a woman in a bar in Barcelona, on December 30, 2022. change your defense version a few timesDaniel Alves admitted that he had sexual intercourse, but denied non-consensual criminal rape.
The athlete’s lawyers appealed to an initial court decision that did not agree with the presence of a psychologist in the process, as this was against Daniel Alves’ right of defense.
According to the EFE news agency, the new order from the Court of Barcelona justifies the participation of an expert in the judicial operation as a way of guaranteeing “veracity, objectivity and impartiality”.
The young woman who accuses Daniel Alves of rape will be examined by a professional from the Psychology Unit of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia. The name of the expert will be defined by the defense of the Brazilian player, but the Court of Barcelona states that the conclusions of the medical-legal report may not be definitive.
“They are not privileged in nature and their conclusions are susceptible to being contested and openly contested by an expert”, reveals the excerpt from the court order, according to EFE. exploration with the greatest possible privacy”.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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