| Supreme Court Rejects Indigenous Teacher's Last-Ditch Appeal Agence France-Presse | |
| go to original September 13, 2013 |
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Alberto Patishtan (albertopatishtan.blogspot.com)
A Mexican court on Thursday rejected an indigenous teacher's last-ditch appeal against his sentence for the killing of seven police officers in a case that rights groups have deemed unfair.
The court in the southern state of Chiapas ruled that the appeal filed by Alberto Patishtan - who was arrested in 2000 and is serving 60 years in prison - was "without foundation" and failed to provide "suitable" evidence to quash his conviction.
The supreme court refused to take up the case in March, sending it back to the Chiapas tribunal. Patishtan's lawyer said his client's only hope now is filing a petition with a Latin American human rights body or winning a pardon from President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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