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Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal Puts Abencia Meza Habeas Corpus to a Vote

The case tests if Peru must honor the prison benefits in place when her 2012 sentence became final.

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Overview

  • Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal left Abencia Meza’s habeas corpus petition to a vote, a step that could let her seek semi-release under rules that applied when her conviction was finalized.
  • Meza is serving a 30-year sentence for the 2009 murder of singer Alicia Delgado and has been in prison for about 17 years at the Santa Mónica facility in Lima.
  • The petition does not challenge her guilt and instead argues she should regain access to pre-2017 benefits, after a later reform removed semi-release for certain crimes.
  • Legal specialists say a ruling that restores access to earlier benefits could set a precedent for other inmates whose sentences became final before the 2017 change.
  • In a separate track, her lawyers filed a commutation request about two months ago with the Presidential Pardons Commission, which remains under review as public figures rally support and debate the case.