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09-04-2009, 06:20 PM
The commissioner of the Reform and Modernization of Justice, Lino Vasquez Samuel reported yesterday that 79 articles of the Penal Process Code would be modified.
The official said that the reform project was worked out by the National Commission for Execution of the Penal Process Code (Conae) after a proposal was agreed upon by the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General and the chief of the National Police and others.
President Leonel Fernandez appointed the well-known jurist Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), Cesar Pina Toribio (the Presidential Minister and one of the original writers of the Code), Abel Rodriguez del Orbe (the Presidential Legal Advisor) and the Prosecutor General Radhames Jimenez Pena to review the changes and give their opinion before sending the bill to Congress.
The changes would instate preventive custody as a means of restraint.
Vasquez said that property crimes and crimes involving checks were among the issues dealt with in the new proposal.
Also included is that a person that has committed a punishable crime and that is free on bail or some other judicial measure and commits another serious offense will not be able to obtain the benefit of bail, travel restrictions and periodic reports to the prosecutor's office. He added that another aspect that will be changed is that regarding treatment of foreigners that are hired to come to commit murders and other crimes.
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The official said that the reform project was worked out by the National Commission for Execution of the Penal Process Code (Conae) after a proposal was agreed upon by the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General and the chief of the National Police and others.
President Leonel Fernandez appointed the well-known jurist Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), Cesar Pina Toribio (the Presidential Minister and one of the original writers of the Code), Abel Rodriguez del Orbe (the Presidential Legal Advisor) and the Prosecutor General Radhames Jimenez Pena to review the changes and give their opinion before sending the bill to Congress.
The changes would instate preventive custody as a means of restraint.
Vasquez said that property crimes and crimes involving checks were among the issues dealt with in the new proposal.
Also included is that a person that has committed a punishable crime and that is free on bail or some other judicial measure and commits another serious offense will not be able to obtain the benefit of bail, travel restrictions and periodic reports to the prosecutor's office. He added that another aspect that will be changed is that regarding treatment of foreigners that are hired to come to commit murders and other crimes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)