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Panama's National Assembly, sitting last week as the jury for a high state trial, by a vote of 45-8 found ex-President José Ramón Guizado, 55, guilty as an accomplice in the assassination of his predecessor, José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The conviction was largely based on a confession by erratic Lawyer Rubén Miró, who admitted machine-gunning Remón at Panama's race track (TIME, Jan. 24), and implicated Guizado, Remón's Vice President. Panama will next prosecute...
Panamanian law, though it forbids the death penalty, provides a specially tough maximum sentence of 35 years for presidential assassins. But the Assembly gave Guizado, once a prominent, well-to-do contractor, only ten years. Then it knocked off a third of that sentence on motion of Deputy Demetrio Martínez, who pointed out earnestly that the crime was Guizado's first offense...
Panama's Guardia Nacional energetically gathered evidence last week for the forthcoming state trial of impeached President José Ramón Guizado, accused of having conspired in the Jan. 2 assassination of President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón that raised Guizado from the vice-presidency to his brief 13 days of power. In sparkling Panama Bay. divers searched for the jettisoned murder gun under the direction of the confessed killer himself, hot-eyed Lawyer...
Amid all the hustle, some Panamanians wondered about Miró's confession that he machine-gunned Remón with Guizado's knowledge so that Guizado could appoint Miró to a high and profitable job. Was that the whole story? Did it somehow seem too simple? Two New York City detectives, who were lent to Panama and helped get Miró's confession, pointedly stayed on for further investigation...
...Guizado's lawyers attempted to get his trial transferred to the Supreme Court, rather than the pro-Remón National Assembly, which has the constitutional authority to try accused Presidents. They argued that the alleged crime took place when Guizado was still Vice President; the Supreme Court, ruling that the accusation against Guizado was made while he was President, rejected jurisdiction. The Assembly named a five-man committee to gather evidence and prepare an arraignment. (Miró will be tried in the courts...