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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2008 
Judge Won’t Rule on Martin's Case Until Next Week
 Canwest News Service
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| | Brenda Martin has spent more than two years in a Mexican prison awaiting trial on money laundering charges. (Paul Hunter/CBC) | | |
The Mexican judge who holds the fate of jailed Canadian Brenda Martin in his hands says he will not deliver his verdict today, as she had hoped, Global National reports.
Judge Luis Nunez Sandoval told Global National he would not be delivering a verdict Friday, but that his decision is likely to come down Tuesday.
Martin has been imprisoned since February 2006, charged with knowingly accepting illicit funds from what’s believed to have been the world’s largest Internet fraud scheme.
A conviction on the charge would carry a sentence of five to 15 years.
Martin has maintained her innocence.
The scheme was operated by Canadian Alyn Waage, for whom Martin worked as a chef at his posh Puerto Vallarta mansion. Waage is serving a 10-year sentence in a U.S. prison.
At her court hearing earlier this week, Martin broke down and became ill after hearing the judge might not render a decision on her case by Friday, as promised.
Under pressure from the Canadian government to finally resolve the case, the judge had promised he would try to issue a ruling by Friday.
However, he has repeatedly said he has 30 working days to issue a ruling.
After she had a chance to absorb the news, Martin said she was bracing herself for whatever happened.
“It must mean that I have a lot of strength to have sustained all this time in here, innocent. So I hope I have enough strength to carry on,” she told Global.
The Mexican judge also told Global that international political pressure would in no way affect his decision. He said he’s treating the Martin case as though it were any other criminal case. |
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