The Hispanic-American Pablo Ibarimprisoned in the US since 1994 for three murders of which he pleads innocent and for which he came to be sentenced to deathhas requested before a US court of appeals the revocation of life sentence that was imposed on him in 2019 and the holding of a new trial.

Before the three judges of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth District of Florida, based in the city of West Palm Beach, Joe Nascimento, Ibar’s lawyer, pointed out that The judicial process was not “fair” which ended in 2019 with the verdict that sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison.

He highlighted that no specific motive was ever found that linked Ibar to the three homicides and that throughout the judicial process there were careless with used parts as evidence.

To a question from the magistrate Melanie Maythe lawyer referred to the small DNA sample belonging to his client in a blue T-shirt found in the house in Miramar (Florida) where they were shot to death Casimir Sucharskyowner of a nightclub, and models Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogersin 1994.

The lawyer alluded to the verdict of an expert who pointed out that the “quality of the sample was below the standards” and stressed that a video recorded by a camera shows a man who rubs his face, touches the garment repeatedly and he wipes his mouth with it. These DNA samples “do not match that of Ibar”he asserted.

Before the panel of judges, which in addition to May is made up of judges Cory Ciklin and Jeffrey Kuntz, the defense attorney asked dismiss some witness statements on the events that occurred on June 26, 1994 in Miramar. Ibar was sentenced to death in 2000, but the Florida Supreme Court annulled that sentence in 2016, considering the evidence against him “very weak” and ordered a repeat trial.

Ibar’s defense alleges in this appeal that the “numerous irregularities and biased decisions incurred by Judge Dennis Bailey” in the 2019 trial violated his “constitutional rights”.

Pablo Ibar, now 50 years old, was recently transferred from the Okeechobee prison (central Florida) to a private prison, where, according to the association, he has found better conditions and carries out various activities, while starting a course of welder.