Judge bribery case quashed

Spain’s Supreme Court yesterday quashed a bribe-taking case against rights judge Baltasar Garzon, who has already been barred from the judiciary for 11 years.

The court ruled that a three-year statute of limitations had passed in the case against the judge, who won global renown by trying to extradite Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet from London in 1998.

Garzon was accused of soliciting sponsorship payments for lectures he gave in New York.