Star Wars villain Darth Vader was tried and convicted in a Chilean court

The villain of the saga “Star Wars”Darth Vader, managed to get Chilean justice in an unusual trial of an educational nature reduce the sentence against him on Sunday for which he was sentenced to “freeze forever”.

This was decided by the Court of Appeal of Valparaíso, 120 km west of Santiago, in a striking educational exercise to bring citizens closer to the work of the courts as part of Heritage Day celebrated this weekend.

In the “trial” of Darth Vader for cutting off his son Luke Skywalker’s hand (something that appears in the episode “The Empire Strikes Back”), it was determined that “what is being sentenced is mutilation (…) and not what Mr. Vader did before.

For this reason and “taking into account the penalties established by the Spatial Penal Code (…), he will be sentenced to the just penalty that has been Being frozen in carbonite for 30 years, until a 30-year ban on approaching the victim, Luke, at least three planets away”determined by the court.

In addition, Vader – dressed in black and his signature helmet and cape – he was completely and continuously disabled due to the “dark use of force” and the lightsaber.

Darth Vader’s attorney, Juan Carlos Manríquez, said in his speech on behalf of his client, “I’m just asking for nothing more and nothing less than justice.”

“He is a human being with rights, if only in part. (…) He is almost a machine, but he is also a human being. He is a father”, bearing in mind that the aggressor is the parent of the victim.

“What we wanted to do today is bring justice, so little understood, closer to the citizens. So that they can see what is done in an appeals court, because people know a lot about processes and courts, but not about the function that is performed here,” explains the president of the appeals court, María del Rosario Lavín.

“In my judicial career I’ve had terribly bad criminals, so it’s not new” the presence of someone like Darth Vader, the magistrate said.