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A judge in the northeastern Argentine province of Santa Fe was fired after a Supreme Court panel unanimously agreed that he erred in the judgement of 10 domestic violence and sexual assault cases.
Judge Rodolfo Mingarini was dismissed by an unanimous vote of 10-0 on Tuesday after the panel ruled that he was not suitable for his post and was 'lacking in justice and at odds with the principles of human rights and the gender perspective.'
Mingarini had been brought up on impeachment charges and was suspended with half his pay in September 2021.
The disgraced magistrate came under scrutiny in June 2021 when he ruled that Leandro Spies could not be held in pre-trial detention because he had used a condom to have sex with a woman who had accused him of rape two months earlier.
'We can think that there would have been forced intercourse, but I cannot understand how if he is going to have forced intercourse, pushing her, subduing her, he took the time, I cannot reconstruct how he puts on the condom and then advances on the victim's body ... who is here, refused,' Mingarini said. 'The truth is that this is where I have the greatest doubt.'
Judge Rodolfo Mingarini was dismissed from his post by a Supreme Court panel in the Argentine province of Santa Fe on Tuesday. The panel found that he was not suitable for his post and was 'lacking in justice and at odds with the principles of human rights and the gender perspective.' In one court ruling, Mingarini released a suspect
