Five months after Luna murdered his wife and mother-in-law, a fact that he admitted to doing, he was acquitted by the court. It was a time when criminal and civil laws in Paris greatly favored men. In just one day of session, the court dismissed the charges against Luna on the grounds of temporary insanity caused by passion.
Apart from being found to have had temporary insanity when he killed his wife and her mother, an unwritten law in France at that time allowed husbands to punish or kill their wives who were found to commit adultery. In the end, the most punishment Luna was made to pay was a price of 40 francs, which was the cost of court documentation. Five days after his acquittal, he moved to Madrid with his son, where he spent the next 17 years
The Pardo de Tavera family shunned Luna forever, for they never received the justice for the deaths of Doña Juliana and Paz Pardo de Tavera. Her brother, Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, who would become a respected historian, doctor, and statesman, blackened out the face of Juan Luna in every family photograph where Luna was present.
sources: LIMOS (2019) Retrieved from June 18, 2019
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