1. Luis Oscar Chocobar was born on 26 May 1987 and is an Argentine former police officer convicted for the killing of a teenage boy during a chase after the latter stabbed a US tourist in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires on 8 December 2017.
21 Facts About Luis Chocobar
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Luis Chocobar's case inspired the Chocobar doctrine, approved by Bullrich, which expanded the rights of police officers to exercise lethal force.
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On 28 May 2021, Luis Chocobar was sentenced to a suspended two-years' imprisonment and five years of suspension as a police officer.
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Luis Chocobar did not serve time in prison due to the lightness of the sentence.
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Luis Chocobar's lawyers announced that they would appeal to a higher court for acquittal.
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Luis Chocobar was born on 26 May 1987 in La Merced, Salta.
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Luis Chocobar was recognized by his mother at the age of 15 in 2002 and changed his surname to hers that same year.
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Luis Chocobar spent time at a reformatory and later lived with his grandparents.
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Luis Chocobar has two brothers and five step-siblings on behalf of his mother.
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Luis Chocobar worked in the Salta countryside since age 11 and became increasingly interested in becoming a police officer.
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Luis Chocobar had obtained a scholarship to study to become an accountant but he abandoned this after he failed in mathematics, according to his own account.
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Luis Chocobar has a daughter from a former marriage and now lives with his girlfriend.
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The younger of them escaped, so Luis Chocobar pursued the other.
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Luis Chocobar's actions were hailed as that of a hero by President Mauricio Macri and Security Secretary Patricia Bullrich, as well as by Wolek, who credited Luis Chocobar with saving his life.
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Luis Chocobar's trial heard closing statements on 26 May 2021.
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Luis Chocobar remotely thanked Chocobar for his actions and asked the judge to acquit him, whereas the victim's family asked for a life imprisonment sentence and the prosecution asked for 3 years of imprisonment.
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Luis Chocobar was tried at the same time with the other delinquent, and whose name is not published due to him being a minor.
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On 28 May 2021, Luis Chocobar was sentenced to a suspended two-years' imprisonment and five years of suspension as a police officer.
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Luis Chocobar did not serve time in prison due to the lightness of the sentence and announced that he will appeal to a higher court for acquittal.
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Luis Chocobar said that he continues to work as a police officer given that his suspension of five years is not yet ratified by the Court of Cassation.
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Luis Chocobar, who is studying to become a lawyer, said that if the Court of Cassation ratifies his suspension, he will appeal to the Supreme Court.