2023-10-03 03:15:00
«A slow process does not benefit either party. It only allows the State to keep the people involved in submission for an indefinite period of time, without a response,” stated the Neuquén Public Ministry of Defense. The reference is to the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice that declared a key article of the Criminal Procedure Code unconstitutional.
In an official statement, he anticipated that “from the MPD all necessary resources will be filed in order to reverse this temperament”.
As reported RÍO NEGRO newspaper, the criminal chamber of the Superior Court of Justice declared unconstitutional article 87 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which establishes that if the entire process is not completed within three years, the accused must be dismissed. It was in a case known as “Estarli”, a death in a traffic accident that occurred in 2018 that There is no final ruling yet..
The criminal court echoed a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, known as “Price”, regarding the Chubut Procedural Code that also regulates procedural deadlines and imposes dismissals if they are not met.
Both the ruling of the Court in “Price” and that of the Superior Court of Neuquén in “Estarli” generated resistance between judges, defenders, prosecutors and organizations such as Inecip or the Comahue Chapter Criminal Thought Association.
Now the public defense, led by Vanina Merlo, has officially joined.
Speed in processes
«For years the Neuquén society He demanded that the justice system speed up the processeswhich in many cases extended (even) for decades, affecting the right to obtain a judicial response within a reasonable time and without undue delay,” the statement says.
He adds that “following years of debates and contributions from renowned specialists, jurists and academics, the Criminal Procedure Code – sanctioned under Law 2784 – came to respond to that demandestablishing an entire architecture of deadlines, which “It allows the processes to be concluded in a maximum of three years.”.
«The recent declaration of unconstitutionality regarding a central article of the Code “It means a regression in terms of rights, for the victim and also for the accused.”.
The public defense affirms that «without deadlines there is no speed possible. A slow process benefits neither party. It only allows the State to keep the people involved subdued by “an indefinite period of time, without a response”.
«From the MPD “All necessary resources will be brought in order to reverse this temperament.”he concludes.
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