Eduardo Epaminondas González Dubón was a president of the Constitutional Court of Guatemala who was assassinated in 1994.[1]
Murder edit
González received death threats a week before being shot and killed in his car in front of his family.[1]
The assassination may have been political in nature. As a member of the court, González had ruled a year earlier that President Jorge Serrano's self-imposed coup was unconstitutional. He had voted to allow the United States to extradite Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Ochoa Ruiz a month before his murder.[1] After the murder, the remaining Constitutional Court judges voted against the decision.[1]
Marlon Salazar López and Antonio Trabanino Vargas have both been convicted of the murder of González. A third alleged murderer, Mario Salazar López, was convicted, successfully appealed the case and was arrested again in 2001.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Judge Epaminondas González Dubón, President of the Constitutional Court, killed in Guatemala City in 1994" Archived 2009-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, HumanRightsFirst.org. (accessed January 22, 2010)