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07-07-2006, 04:36 PM
According to Supreme Court of Justice vice president, Judge Luciano Pichardo, the Criminal Procedure Code was imposed by international interests and many aspects require revisions. He stated that he was making this criticism from his perspective as a citizen. He mentioned that similar codes have not worked either in Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Argentina. He pointed out that Uruguay has suspended it and returned to their old code, and that Chile is considering taking the same course of action. He said that the powerful extra-territorial interests were behind its passing in Congress, despite several sectors which warned of the problems it would create with the many loopholes it includes, which they say would benefit criminals.
"Why is the same code being imposed and ruling in the majority of the Latin American countries at the same time? Is there something promoting that?" asked Pichardo, suggesting there was an unexplained international political interest in the criminal procedures code.
Outgoing USAID director Elena Brineman recently cited the Penal Procedure Code as one of the achievements of her work in the Dominican Republic during a presentation at the American Chamber of Commerce event.
Judge Pichardo said that that code should have been adapted instead of the DR applying it, as it was imposed. According to some experts, it is more progressive than the civil rights code in the United States, and too advanced for a country with significant deficiencies in its police force and prosecutors. As a result, criminals are apprehended and then promptly released. Pichardo's statements are carried in an interview with District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero, and published in the District Attorney's magazine, Fiscalia en Accion.
There is an ongoing debate on how to preserve the advances in civil rights, but at the same time provide the country with an instrument to fight crime.
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"Why is the same code being imposed and ruling in the majority of the Latin American countries at the same time? Is there something promoting that?" asked Pichardo, suggesting there was an unexplained international political interest in the criminal procedures code.
Outgoing USAID director Elena Brineman recently cited the Penal Procedure Code as one of the achievements of her work in the Dominican Republic during a presentation at the American Chamber of Commerce event.
Judge Pichardo said that that code should have been adapted instead of the DR applying it, as it was imposed. According to some experts, it is more progressive than the civil rights code in the United States, and too advanced for a country with significant deficiencies in its police force and prosecutors. As a result, criminals are apprehended and then promptly released. Pichardo's statements are carried in an interview with District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero, and published in the District Attorney's magazine, Fiscalia en Accion.
There is an ongoing debate on how to preserve the advances in civil rights, but at the same time provide the country with an instrument to fight crime.
Link To Original Article (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)