The crime alleged against him was, that, with a design to elude the jurisdiction of the praefect of Rome, he had accused several delinquents before the praetor; intending, in the first instance, under colour of a legal process, and afterwards, by abandoning the prosecution, to defeat the ends of justice.
Valerio Pontikok ere antzeko lotsaizuna jasan zuen, zeren, erruztatuak Hiriko prefektuaren aurrean salatuak izan ez zitezen, pretorearen aurrera eraman baitzituen, berez legea betetzeko itxuran, baina gero prebarikatzeko asmotan, zigorra saihestuz.