The trial against Laura Borràs will be held in February of next year. The oral hearing will begin on February 10 with the previous questions and after a break of several days it will resume on the 20th of the same month until March 1, when the final reports of each of the parties are scheduled to be read, where they must present their conclusions. The suspended president of Parliament will be tried by the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJC as accused of the crimes of prevarication and falsification of a commercial document when she was the president of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.
In an order issued this Friday, the TSJC accepts the expert evidence prepared, at the request of Borràs' defense, Luís Enrique Hellín, (formerly known as Emilio Hellín) an ultra-rightist convicted of the murder of Yolanda González in 1980. It is about an analysis of the contents of the computer of Isaías Herrero, Borràs's friend, who will sit next to her in the defendant's dock. Hellín must testify at the trial and ratify the content of the report he made in defense of the president. The prosecution filed a brief to challenge the expert in connection with his murder conviction. "This blemish is deemed to have been made without any other effect," the court stated in a ruling.
Laura Borràs's defense has asked the court to declare at the end of the trial once all the evidence has been taken. The court will decide on this issue "at the beginning of the sessions and after listening to the reasons that the parties can offer," she says. According to the legislation, the president of the court has the power to alter the order in which the trial takes place whenever requested by one of the parties.
The trial will be chaired by the president of the TSJC, Jesús María Barrientos. Laura Borràs has presented an incident to challenge him and to be removed from the case, as happened in the hearing against Roger Torrent and the Parliamentary Table. On that occasion, Barrientos was removed considering that there were doubts about his impartiality. This week, in addition, the Supreme Court has inflicted a harsh corrective on him by annulling the conviction that he imposed against the Parliamentary Committee of the Carme Forcadell stage, for lack of impartiality.
The Prosecutor's Office requests six years in prison for Laura Borràs, for the alleged splitting of contracts when she directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes and demands a disqualification from holding public office for the next 21 years and a fine of 144,000 euros. The prosecution ruled out accusing her of embezzlement, a crime for which the TSJC had also prosecuted her.
