MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A U.S. man absolved of killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend was under
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A U.S. man absolved of killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend was under guard at a police hospital Tuesday while struggling to obtain his release from custody, according to his lawyer.
A Nicaraguan appeals court on Monday overturned a 30-year sentence imposed on 28-year-old Eric Volz, of Nashville, Tenn., and ordered his immediate release.
Volz’s lawyer, Fabbrith Gomez, accused officials of “a big delaying tactic” to keep him from being freed before prosecutors can appeal his freedom to the Supreme Court. The judge who convicted Volz received the order to release him, but sent the file back to the appeals court in the city of Granada, “supposedly because the pages were not numbered correctly,” Gomez told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Volz was being treated for kidney stones, Gomez said.