Some judicial processes “fail” in the courts and the defendants obtain their freedom because there were procedural errors during the procedures that were clearly established in the Penal Process Code. One such case was Saturnino Rodriguez (Julio el Gordo) who walked out of court last week after being accused of illegal possession of firearms when the warrant used to search his house had the wrong address. Another such case involved a pair of alleged drug traffickers who were found with 25,000 tablets of Ecstasy, but the search warrant was out of date. Because of the doctrine of the poisoned fruit, all evidence was thrown out and the defendants walked out of court. Article 167 of the Penal Process Code establishes that nothing can be done to establish a judicial decision if the rules are not followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some judicial processes “fail” in the courts and the defendants obtain their freedom because there were procedural errors during the procedures that were clearly established in the Penal Process Code. One such case was Saturnino Rodriguez (Julio el Gordo) who walked out of court last week after being accused of illegal possession of firearms when … <\/p>\n