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UCCR
UNITED
CONCERNED CITIZENS & RESIDENTS
Established for the recovery of investor/lender funds
personally loaned to Luis Enrique Villalobos
Camacho
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Holding Pattern Update
It is a real challenge to
compose a newsletter if there is no news to
report.
As you all know, we have been in a holding pattern since the appeals in the Osvaldo case were submitted to the Sala Tercera of the Supreme Court in December of last year. Because we (UCCR) have been very silent since that time, many have written to us to see if we still had their correct E-mail addresses. The answer is "yes" to the addresses. And if there were any newsworthy items to share with you, we would have done so. The only recent event that needs to be mentioned is a meeting that our attorney had with Judge Arroyo, the chief magistrate of the Sala Tercera, in his chambers on April 8th. The invitation to such a meeting had been extended during our own meeting with the magistrate. We subsequently met with José Miguel Villalobos to learn what happened. JMV received a warm welcome at the courthouse. Judge Arroyo asked numerous questions and showed genuine interest in the case. The content of the appeals was not discussed, and our attorney developed no insight concerning the possible outcome. The judge did reveal that a court assistant had been busy compiling a resume of the appeals for distribution to all the judges and that this document was 75% completed. JMV estimated that an opinion might be anticipated in one to two months from the time the judges receive the resume. (There is no legal limit to the time required by the court to render its opinion.) He also stated his intention to meet soon with each of the other four magistrates of the Sala Tercera. Just in case we do not have a decision of the court by the end of May, we will look into ways to bring pressure as we did before to bring about the original court case. We are going on the sixth year deprived of our savings and that is a very long time... even for Costa Rica. Thank you.
Thursday, 24. April 2008 |