The Rise and Fall of Baltasar Garzón

by Soeren Kern
PJ Media
February 17, 2012

http://kern.pundicity.com/11199/baltasar-garzon

Excerpt:

Baltasar Garzón, a high-profile Spanish judge who rose to fame for using the legal doctrine of universal jurisdiction to indict former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, has been disbarred for ordering illegal wiretaps.

The Spanish Supreme Court on February 9 unanimously ruled that Garzón acted illegally when he authorized police to record jailhouse conversations between detainees and their defense lawyers in a political corruption investigation known in Spain as the Gürtel case.

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