Overview
- The ruling overturns an Audiencia de Barcelona acquittal and restores the original conviction issued by Barcelona’s Criminal Court No. 6.
- Judges found the defendant provided no objective proof for his claims, including no documentation of his mother’s reported operation and no witness testimony.
- The court noted the man continued daily activities such as going to work and the supermarket, undercutting a state-of-necessity defense.
- His refusal on February 14, 2021, after the Electoral Board rejected his excusal, delayed the opening of the assigned polling table by about one hour before a substitute took over.
- The decision rejects classifying a 64-year-old as of “advanced age” and defers to prior governmental and judicial determinations that the election could proceed with COVID precautions.