Break Florence, the French sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping in Mexico, should be attached to his fate on Thursday, the date of hearing of his appeal on points of law by a tribunal of three judges, after already more than five years of imprisonment. In December 2005, the arrest of Florence Cass had been a show organized for television.
The French, now aged 36, has always protested his innocence, but she was sentenced to 96 years in prison in the first instance, a sentence reduced on appeal to 60 years in prison in March 2009. His Mexican lawyer, Agustin Acosta, said that the decision of the seventh criminal court in Mexico could be decisive in case of agreement of three judges may judge of the appellate court is broken and in this case Cassez could be released within 24 hours, the cassation appeal is dismissed and the French would have no recourse to justice in Mexico.
But we can not exclude, "said Ms. Acosta, in case of non-unanimity of the three judges, the matter be referred for further investigation, or alternatively for new trial in the court of appeal. For advocates of the young woman, cassation ("amparo") suggests that all the charges "built on sand" on "falsified evidence," according to the terms used by the French lawyer Florence Break, Frank Berton, upon filing of the cassation appeal in August 2010.
At the beginning of the case, the opinion was unanimous Mexican been hostile to the "evil French". But in five years, the activities of lawyers and thorough investigations, especially from French journalists on the spot on a record of more than 10,000 pages, have cast doubt in circles wider and wider in Mexico .
In November 2010, the French received two notable supporters: that the Catholic Church of Mexico and a former federal attorney general, the equivalent of the Minister of Justice, who claimed to believe in his innocence. Break The case also became a contentious diplomatic row between France and Mexico. 
The French, now aged 36, has always protested his innocence, but she was sentenced to 96 years in prison in the first instance, a sentence reduced on appeal to 60 years in prison in March 2009. His Mexican lawyer, Agustin Acosta, said that the decision of the seventh criminal court in Mexico could be decisive in case of agreement of three judges may judge of the appellate court is broken and in this case Cassez could be released within 24 hours, the cassation appeal is dismissed and the French would have no recourse to justice in Mexico.
But we can not exclude, "said Ms. Acosta, in case of non-unanimity of the three judges, the matter be referred for further investigation, or alternatively for new trial in the court of appeal. For advocates of the young woman, cassation ("amparo") suggests that all the charges "built on sand" on "falsified evidence," according to the terms used by the French lawyer Florence Break, Frank Berton, upon filing of the cassation appeal in August 2010.
At the beginning of the case, the opinion was unanimous Mexican been hostile to the "evil French". But in five years, the activities of lawyers and thorough investigations, especially from French journalists on the spot on a record of more than 10,000 pages, have cast doubt in circles wider and wider in Mexico .
In November 2010, the French received two notable supporters: that the Catholic Church of Mexico and a former federal attorney general, the equivalent of the Minister of Justice, who claimed to believe in his innocence. Break The case also became a contentious diplomatic row between France and Mexico.
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