“I’m heartbroken. I don’t know what else I can do to prove my innocence,” Pablo Ibar, a Hispanic-American national of Basque descent who was sentenced to death in 2000 for a triple murder in 1994, says , feeling dejected and deeply saddened by a Florida court’s recent decision that refused to overturn the life sentence and hold a new trial.In an autographed note sent to the Pablo Ibar-Fair Trial Association, the prisoner expresses despair at the court’s verdict, which upholds the sentence he is currently serving, a decision he describes as a “lack of justice.”
Pablo Ibar, 50, married with two children, has been in prison for nearly 29 years since he was 29 today, for a triple crime he has always denied authorship. The Florida Circuit Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, based in West Palm Beach, last April dismissed the arguments of his attorney, Joe Nascimento, who had asked for the life sentence to be overturned and a new trial to be held, this time with “all guarantees.” reports the above-mentioned association.
Pablo Ibar, during an appearance before a court in Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA), in January 2019. Giorgio Viera (EFE)
Ibar has sent two handwritten notebook pages expressing his frustration at the recent court rulings against him. “I don’t know what else I can do to prove my innocence and get a fair trial,” he writes. It also states that the Court of Appeal’s refusal to grant the appeal and, on the other hand, that it did so without even explaining the reasons for its decision, amounted to a new death sentence: “I am not in the corridor of.” Death, but I still have a death sentence. He also uses the short, pen-written letter to express his gratitude for the countless signs of support he has received from different parts of the world: “To everyone who has supported me, I love you with all my heart and whole heart Soul.” .” And he says goodbye with a “Thank you for that”.
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Ibar, the nephew of boxer José Manuel Ibar, Urtain, continues to have the support of his family, says the club, which has worked for decades to bring visibility to this case and is also trying to raise enough money to deal with the costly court case . His wife Tanya, who visits him regularly, points out in a video taken after his release from prison that they are both in a “difficult situation”. “We feel very lost and, while we do not lose hope, we ask you not to forget my husband,” his wife said after meeting her husband in prison. And he adds that they continue to “fight to bring him home and get him out of this place.” He doesn’t deserve to be there.
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Hopes Ibar had had in the appeal his attorney defended in February in the Florida 4th Circuit Court of Appeals were dashed when the decision was announced two months later. A setback was the decision of the three judges represented in the room, who rejected eleven of the twelve reasons put forward by the lawyer “without even justifying the reasons,” the association said in an informative statement.
The defense now plans to appeal again, this time to the Florida Supreme Court, the same body that overturned Ibar’s death sentence and ordered a retrial in 2016. Then the US Supreme Court ruled that the evidence against Pablo Ibar was “scarce” and “weak”.
Ibar had served 29 years in prison since his arrest in June 1994 on charges of murdering nightclub owner Casimir Sucharsky and models Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers, a triple crime Ibar has always denied being involved with to have been. The unfolding of events was recorded by a video camera in the living room of the house, which at one point captured the face of a young Hispanic man whom police identified as Pablo. In 2016, after 16 years on death row, an appeals court overturned that verdict on the grounds that the evidence was “too flimsy” and ordered a new trial. In 2019, the Hispanic of Basque descent was sentenced to life imprisonment in this new trial.
The Pablo Ibar-Just Trial Association awaits what the new trial phase will bring with the filing of the appeal to the Florida Supreme Court and continues to work on new initiatives that will allow it to receive support and financial resources. The association has just set up a Bizum hotline to facilitate and expedite donations to fund the court case.