Baltasar Garzón cleared over his Franco-era crimes inquiry
The celebrated Spanish human rights investigator Baltasar Garzón escaped a second conviction for abuse of his powers on Monday when the supreme court declared him not guilty in a case involving his investigation of crimes committed under the Franco dictatorship.
The decision came too late to save Garzón's career as an investigating magistrate as the the supreme court had already disbarred him in a separate case for wiretapping conversations between defence lawyers and their clients in a corruption investigation involving the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy's People's party.
Victims of systematic repression by Franco's iron-fisted regime emerged as the biggest losers in Monday's case, however, with the court upholding Spain's controversial amnesty laws and declaring that Garzón had still been wrong to open an investigation into the deaths of 114,000 people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/27/baltasar-garzon-cleared-franco-crimes
Yet Clarence Thomas hasn't been disbarred yet?
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