Advocates a law protecting victims

The lawyer Namphi Rodriguez urged the adoption of a law of the protection of victims and witnesses to correct the procedural imbalance in favour of the accused that characterizes the Dominican criminal procedural system.

RODRIGUEZ said that you despite the fact that the Constitution and the code of criminal procedure provide that the parties involved the process under conditions of equality, the reality is that there are a number of situations to be corrected because they leave the victim in a State of defenselessness procedural.

"Cannot be the testimony of a victim to have a low value supposedly because it is an interested party." Who rather than the victim to describe the magnitude of the damage to a wrongful act? ", asked the right professional, having urged Congress to put an initiative on agenda to create a body care and protection to the victim and witnesses that makes more balanced criminal proceedings."

Emphasized that the u000aconstitutional guarantees of due process, as well as the means of procedural and social assistance laid down in the Constitution and the laws are for the accused and the victims. He argued that there are judges applying the guarantees of the process as if they were a monopoly of the accused, forgetting that the victim be embodies society attacked by the punishable.

"There is a public defence of suspects in the country, and this is good because they are guaranteed the fundamental rights of the accused, but explains that the State did not allocate resources to equally within the procedural, psychological and human assist vulnerable victims such as the violence of gender or the mother who lost a son by an action of a criminal.

Recalled that article 177 of the Constitution stipulates that the State is responsible for organizing programs and services of free legal assistance for persons who do not have the resources u000aeconomic to obtain legal representation, particularly for the protection of the rights of victims, without prejudice to the powers of the public prosecutor's Office. In addition, a draft law in this regard, deposited by the Commissioner for the reform and modernization of justice support it rests in the Chamber of Deputies.

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