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Pichún Paillalao was also sentenced to serve 41 days and to pay a fine of 10 monthly tax units for
the crime of driving under the influence (…).
5. The Mapuche communities of Didaico and Temulemu are adjacent to the Nancahue tree farm,
and
6. According to the statement that Osvaldo Carvajal, both defendants are members of a violent, de
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facto organization called the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco C.A.M.
80.
Based on these considerations and evidence that, in the judges’ opinion, proved that the
defendants had had a hand in setting the fires, the oral criminal trial court concluded that defendants
Pascual Pichún and Aniceto Norín were guilty of the authorship of the crimes of “terrorist arson” and
sentenced them to imprisonment for five years and one day.
81.
Furthermore, ancillary penalties were imposed under Article 9 of the Constitution of Chile
in the following terms:
That, those found guilty shall, furthermore, be disqualified for 15 years from discharging public
duties or holding public office, regardless of whether or not the appointment is by popular election;
from being the rector or director of an educational establishment or performing teaching activities
therein; from operating a social communications media outlet or being a director or manager
thereof, or performing therein functions connected with the broadcast or dissemination of opinions
or information; and from being the leader of a political organization, an organization associated with
education, or a neighborhood, professional, business, labor, student, or trade association, during
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that time.
82.
Finally, the Court denied Pascual Pichún’s request to have the identity of protected
witness No. 1 revealed so that legal action could be instituted against the witness for perjury. The court
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dismissed the request in view of the nature and seriousness of the crimes established in this ruling.
83.
Therefore, in the operative part of the oral criminal trial court’s judgment, the petitioners
were acquitted of the charge of terrorist arson involving the home of the manager of the Nancahue tree
farm and terrorist arson on the San Gregorio property; Aniceto Norín was also acquitted of the crime of
terrorist threat against the owners and manager of the Nancahue tree farm as the court was of the view
that his individual culpability had not been proven; the two defendants were convicted of the crime of
“terrorist threats.”
7.
The motion filed to vacate the conviction and the Chilean Supreme Court’s
decision
84.
The petitioners filed a motion with the Chilean Supreme Court seeking to have the
September 27, 2003 verdict of the Angol oral criminal trial court overturned and argued that the lower
court had committed several violations that were legal grounds for nullification, namely: (a) violation of
constitutional guarantees and international treaties (Article 373-a of the Code of Criminal Procedure); (b)
formal defects in the explanation of the facts, the weighing of the means of evidence, and the
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Verdict of the Angol oral criminal trial court –chamber with jurisdiction- of September 27, 2003; Consideranda 15.
Attached to the communication that attorney Rodrigo Lillo Vera sent to the IACHR on behalf of Aniceto Norín, received on
December 23, 2003, and to the communication from Pascual Pichún Paillalao supplementing the original petition he filed with the
IACHR, received on June 21, 2004.
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Verdict of the Angol oral criminal trial court – chamber with jurisdiction, September 27, 2003; Consideranda 15.
Addendum to the communication that attorney Rodrigo Lillo Vera sent to the IACHR on behalf of Aniceto Norín, received on
December 23, 2003, and to the communication from Pascual Pichún Paillalao supplementing the original petition he filed with the
IACHR, received June 21, 2004.
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Verdict of the Angol oral criminal trial court –court with jurisdiction- of September 27, 2003; Consideranda 23. Attached
to the communication that attorney Rodrigo Lillo Vera sent to the IACHR on behalf of Aniceto Norín, received on December 23,
2003, and to the communication from Pascual Pichún Paillalao supplementing the original petition he filed with the IACHR, received
on June 21, 2004.