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Reaffirm Freedom for Israel Vallarta: Court Gives Second Acquittal

Summary by El Financiero
Israel Vallarta is released because the first Collegiate Court of Appeal in Toluca, State of Mexico, issued a second acquittal sentence on Thursday, June 18.After more than 20 years in prison without a sentence and having been released on August 1, last year, the sentence reaffirms his freedom, after the Attorney General's Office (FGR) appealed his acquittal last year.

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On Thursday, June 18, 2026, in follow-up to the Florence Cassez case, a Federal Court ratified Israel Vallarta's acquittal for the crime of kidnapping. By unanimous decision, it was determined that there is no evidence to prove that Israel Vallarta was head of the Los Zodiaco group or involved in kidnapping crimes.With this acquittal, a new chapter of the legal process that kept Israel Vallarta in the Altiplano prison, in the State of Mexico, op…

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The Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic (FGR) has run out of arms against Israel Vallarta, who was one of its main prisoners for two decades. The dependence, now commanded by Ernestina Godoy, has lost its last judicial battle with which it sought for Vallarta to return to prison. It has no more resources left. A federal court, the First Court of Appeal of the Second Circuit, confirmed on Thursday the acquittal sentence that the defend…

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A federal court ratific, for lack of elements, the acquittal of Israel Vallarta, considered by the FGR as a criminal l der.

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Israel Vallarta is released because the first Collegiate Court of Appeal in Toluca, State of Mexico, issued a second acquittal sentence on Thursday, June 18.After more than 20 years in prison without a sentence and having been released on August 1, last year, the sentence reaffirms his freedom, after the Attorney General's Office (FGR) appealed his acquittal last year.

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Israel Vallarta yesterday granted an interview to Grupo Formula. Two days earlier, the three judges of the First Collegiate Criminal Court of...

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19 June.- The First Collegiate Court of Appeal residing in Toluca unanimously upheld the acquittal handed down in favour of Israel Vallarta Cisneros, accused of kidnapping, for allegedly belonging to the band of plagiarists Los Zodiaco, a ruling that last year ordered his immediate release on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to keep him deprived of his liberty in the Altiplano. The decision corresponds to the second instance of t…

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El Financiero broke the news in Mexico on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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