The David Sánchez case is also, as is often the case in trials of high public interest, a kind of staged power struggle between leading figures in the legal profession. Specifically, the lawyer defending the Prime Minister's brother is Emilio Cortés Bechiarelli, a professor of Criminal Law at the University of Extremadura, whose current client list includes the equally controversial Pedro Rocha, Luis Rubiales' successor as president of the Spani…
The David Sánchez case is also, as is often the case in trials of high public interest, a kind of staged power struggle between leading figures in the legal profession. Specifically, the lawyer defending the Prime Minister's brother is Emilio Cortés Bechiarelli, a professor of Criminal Law at the University of Extremadura, whose current client list includes the equally controversial Pedro Rocha, Luis Rubiales' successor as president of the Spani…