Francisco Baena Bocanegra, a privileged head lawyer and film star ways | Spain
Sevillian lawyers have lacked superlative these days to define the penalist Francisco Baena Bocanegra, who died last Wednesday at age 83 victim of cancer after a radiant career. The lawyer combined a privileged hard drive with a presence, ways and actor’s voice that turned their interventions into each trial into a small show. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers enjoyed their original points of view, wisdom and staging, which achieved the complete and silent attention of the view room.
« It had an enormous speaking capacity, a multifaceted personality, a domain of the court scene, an exhaustive preparation of the affairs, a relationship with the excellent customers to convey them security … but also an academic vision, a great technique for the appeal for cassation and a constant capacity for renewal, » praises the Sevillian chief prosecutor, Luis Fernández Arévalo. The penalist, born in Coín (Málaga) and with three children, has already died with the boots put after exercising no less than for 58 years from a prestigious law firm that has participated in all relevant and media cases in Andalusia.
Among the 17,000 cases directed by his office, Clients like Judge Baltasar Garzónto which he defended in the trial of the gürtel plot, the expolytic Pedro Pacheco, the minors judge Manuel Rico Lara, The Duke of Fairthe soccer player Rubén Castro and dozens of strangers. Among them, a girl who lost both arms when playing a turret of electricity, remembers her right hand for almost four decades, Enrique del Río: « It was number one to study the issues until the last comma and calm people.
Baena Bocanegra received the merit medal in the service of the law, the medal of the city of Seville and the Cross of San Raimundo de Peñafort of the Ministry of Justice, among other awards. Harmonic fond of the harmonica, collect briefcases and showed a jovial style, exquisite respect in short distances, a prodigious memory and great elegance.
The lawyer Juan Carlos Alférez praises his generosity to convey knowledge to the rest of the lawyers and improve the profession: “It was unique, unrepeatable, a colossus. Insightful, acute, empathetic, endowed with an overwhelming natural intelligence, rigorous, technical, studious, great speaker, best argumentary and an exquisite education with each and each of the legal operators. He in each procedural act, meeting, presentation, in whatever they coincide with the teacher, you always brought a valuable teaching. ”
In his long career with media cases such as the Macrocousa Ere, the ARNY casethe double crime of Almonte or the Juan Guerra case. They were famous in the Andalusian capital their duels in numerous judgments with the Sevillian chief prosecutor Alfredo Flores, in which two opposite styles faced each other. « Paco with his most flowery and baroque style, with great domain of voice and hands, and flowers, with his calm and Castilian austerity. A spectacle, » he recalls from the river.
Former State Attorney María José Segarra, successor of Flores, shared oral view duels with Baena Bocanegra in her years as a Sevillian chief prosecutor. « He defended all his clients with the same impetus, the same forcefulness, the same guarantee of having studied the case well, and knowing how to be in each procedural act collaborating with justice. For a prosecutor, sharing judgments with him was a guarantee of a good debate with a magnificent professional, » he praises. Fernández Arévalo finishes: « In the conversation he was bubbly, like a glass of champagne and with the mental speed of a tamer that attended three clues at the same time. »
