Overview
- Tribunal Oral Nº 1 convicted Cardozo for the 2023 stabbing of Juan Iván Miranda and set a 20-year prison term.
- Judges Facundo Gómez Urso, María Paula Soulé and Pablo Viñas ruled that Cardozo reinitiated the confrontation and was the only person to use a knife.
- The court rejected the prosecution’s push for the femicidio vinculado aggravation after finding that element unproven.
- A legitimate-defense claim was dismissed as disproportionate given a vital-area stab, the victim’s developmental delay and his unarmed status.
- Cardozo followed the verdict by telephone from Unidad Penal de Batán, where he has been held since shortly after the attack that led to Miranda’s death at HIGA on February 28, 2023.