Penal - Rol N° O-3768-2020

This document details a simplified procedure case before the 14th Guarantee Court of Santiago. The defendant, William Paul Zúñiga Ruiz, was found transiting in public without permission on June 1, 2020, violating sanitary measures related to the COVID-19 outbreak. The court qualified this as endangering public health under Article 318 of the Penal Code, imposing a fine equivalent to 1/3 of a monthly tax unit. The defendant, a 43-year-old construction worker residing in La Florida, had no prior criminal record, which was considered a mitigating factor. The prosecution presented its case based on Article 318, while the defense arguments were not detailed. The court found the defendant guilty and applied the mitigating circumstance of irreproachable prior conduct. The sentence was suspended for six months, with the condition that the fine would be considered paid by the period of detention on April 20, 2021. Both parties renounced appeals, rendering the sentence final.

• Datos básicos del caso:

• Tribunal: 14º Juzgado de Garantía de Santiago.
• RIT: 3768-2020.
• RUC: 2000556251-2.
• Fecha: 20 de abril de 2021.
• Tipo de procedimiento: Simplificado.

• Hechos acreditados:

• Conducta: William Paul Zúñiga Ruiz fue sorprendido transitando en la vía pública sin permiso.
• Fecha: 1 de junio de 2020, a las 12:10 horas.
• Lugar: Intersección de Avenida Vicuña Mackenna Oriente con calle San Carlos de Ancud, comuna de La Florida, Santiago.
• Contexto: Incumplimiento de las medidas sanitarias dispuestas por la autoridad de salud debido al brote de COVID-19, establecidas en diversas resoluciones exentas, que obligaban a la población de la comuna de La Florida y provincia de Santiago a permanecer en aisl...