The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has set for March 14, 15 and 16, 2023 the repetition of the trial of the sovereignist members of the Parliamentary Table in the Carme Forcadell stage, after the Supreme Court annulled his sentence for the lack of impartiality of two magistrates.
This has been determined by the lawyer of the administration of justice of the civil and criminal chamber of the Catalan high court in an ordering procedure in which he specifies that the repetition of the trial will start on March 14 with the interrogation of the defendants, with morning sessions and later, that on March 15 it will be the turn for the witnesses and on the 16th the processing of reports before the case is seen for sentencing.
The Supreme Court ordered last November to annul the sentence to 20 months of disqualification of the members of JxSí at the Table in 2017 Lluís Corominas, Anna Simó, Ramon Barrufet and Lluís Guinó for disobedience by allowing the processing of the laws of the "procés", for the lack of impartiality of two of the court magistrates -the president of the TSJC Jesús María Barrientos and Carlos Ramos-, since they had externalized in previous proceedings an explicit position on key issues of the trial.
In this way, the Supreme Court ordered a repeat trial with a court other than the one that sentenced Carme Forcadell's colleagues at the Parliament Table in 2017 for their "stubborn" disobedience to the Constitution to allow the processing of the referendum and transitory laws approved on September 6 and 7 of that year in the Catalan Chamber.
It is the case that both Barrientos and Ramos were challenged for lack of impartiality in the trial last October in which the TSJC acquitted the former president of the Parliament and current Minister of Business Roger Torrent and the sovereignist members of his Board -Adriana Delgado, from ERC, and Eusebi Campdepadrós and Josep Costa, from Junts-, after ruling out that they disobeyed the Constitution when processing sovereignist resolutions and disapproval of the monarchy in 2019.
The court argued in this case that the actions of the defendants were "absolutely different" from those of the Board of the Forcadell stage, because it considered that the resolutions they processed did not have "continuity" with respect to the "unilateral" process of independence initiated in 2015.
