#JuicioProcés: The Jurisdiction Of The Supreme Court, The Strategies Of The Defendants And The Yellow Ribbons
On February 3 we announced our intention to tell the story of the “Trial of the Procés” (more precisely, the trial of the acts committed by some people in the aforementioned process), and today we publish the first of said posts, with the intention of continuing to do so with some regularity, depending on the events and aiming at rigorously analyzing the legal questions that arise and combating the politicization of a trial that, in our opinion, has, from the outset, all the conditions to be legally just. And if it doesn’t, we’ll say so. The work that will appear in this section is eminently collective, because the variety of issues that may be involved demands it. That’s why it will appear under the “Hay Derecho” signature. And, diving into the matter, we will now analyse some of the most relevant issues that were discussed last week during the trial sessions of the procés: The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. One of the main points reiterated by the defendants has been the claim that the Spanish Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction in this case, on the grounds that the acts for which they are being tried would have been committed in the territory of Catalonia. […]