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Law Amending The Penal Code And Code Of Criminal Procedure

Original Language Title: Ley Reformatoria al Código Penal y Código de Procedimiento Penal

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2 -- Supplement -- Official Record No. 160 -- Monday, March 29, 2010

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Office No. SAN-2010-178

Quito, March 23, 2010

Lord

Luis Fernando Badillo

Director of the Official Registry, Enc.

City

Of my consideration:

The Assembly National, in accordance with the attributions

that the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador gives to it

and the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, discussed and

approved the project of REFORM LAW TO THE PENAL CODE AND CODE PENAL PROCEDURE.

In session of March 18, 2010, the Assembly of the Assembly

National met and spoke on the partial objection

presented by the Constitutional President of the

Republic.

For the above; and, as provided by Article 138 of the

Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador and Article 64 of

the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, accompanied by the

text of the CRIMINAL CODE AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE, to be published in the Official Register.

Atently,

f.) Dr. Francisco Vergara O., Secretary General.

ASSEMBLY NATIONAL

THE PLENO

Considering:

What, Article 169 of the Constitution declares that the

procedural system is a means to the realization of the

justice, and that the procedural rules must enshrine the

principles of simplification, uniformity, effectiveness,

inmediation, celerity and procedural economics, and make

effective the due process guarantees;

That, although the crime fight is a

complex topic that assumes efficient and

coordinated action by all the actors involved, there is a

demand from different sectors on point-in-time aspects of

the legislation and, It is up to the National Assembly

to give an answer in this matter; and,

In use of its powers it issues the following,

LAW REFORM OF THE PENAL CODE AND CODE OF PROCEDURE PENAL

Chapter I.

OF THE REFORMS TO THE CRIMINAL CODE Art. 1.- Add as a second paragraph of article 78, the following:

" The recidivism, in the case of the established violation

in item 607, number 1, will be considered as

offense, in accordance with the Chapter I of Title X of

Book II of this Code ".

Art. 2.- Add, in Article 450, the following number:

" 11. If it has been committed against members of the

Armed Forces or the National Police, prosecutors or judges of

criminal guarantees, in the performance of their duties. "

Art. 3.- Substitute Article 569 of the Penal Code, for the following:

" It shall be repressed with minor imprisonment of three to six

years and fine of six to sixteen dollars of the States

United of America, who hide, custodian, save,

transport, sell, or transfer the holding, in whole or in part,

the goods, things or semovients, proceeds of the theft or theft,

or whose legal provenance cannot be tested. "

Art. 4.- Replace in Article 51 of the Penal Code, the first paragraph of the paragraph of the "peculiar Peñas of the

contravention", by the following:

1.-Prison from one to thirty days.

Replace the first Item 607, by the

below:

" Art. 607.-Will be repressed with a fine of fourteen to

twenty eight dollars of the United States of America and

prison of five to thirty days: "; and, replace the numeral

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first, as follows: " 1. The theft, provided the value

of the subtracted things does not exceed fifty percent of

a unified basic worker's compensation in

general. "

Chapter II.

OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE REFORMS

Art. 5.- Remove the last paragraph of item 25.

Art. 6.- In Article 26, add as final paragraph the following:

" The prosecutor or the prosecutor will, compulsorily, present within

the substantiation of their tax instruction, the registration of

detentions detailing the reasons for the

stops.

Art. 7.- Replace the item number 3 in article 27, by the following:

" 3. Process and resolve in-hearing requests for

repair agreements, conditional suspensions to the

procedure and conversions. Processing and resolution

of file requests and misestimates will be performed without

hearing, without prejudice to the complainant's right to be

heard. "

Art. 8.- In the first paragraph of article 33, following the word "fiscal", add the phrase

", without the need for prior denunciation".

Art. 9.- Remove literals (g), (h), (i), (j), and (k) from item 36.

Art. 10.- In the first paragraph of Article 39, after the word "denunciation" remove the phrase "information part or

any other way that the news of the illicit arrives".

As a second indent add the following:

"The judge, prior to resolving, must hear the whistleblower."

In the first paragraph of the first unnumbered

item added following Article 39, after the word

"crimes", add the following sentence "that they come to

knowledge of the prosecution either for informational parts,

reports or for any other news of the illicit".

Art. 11.- In Article 160, in the paragraph of the actual injunctions add the following numeral:

"4) The ban on alienating".

Art. 12.- In the second paragraph of Article 161, after the phrase "judge of guarantees", add the phrase "penal, e

shall immediately inform the prosecutor".

Art. 13.- Replace the second paragraph of Article 171, by the following:

" Whenever it is not a matter of crimes against administration

public, of which one or more persons are killed,

of sexual offences, Of hate, penalty-sanctioned by

seclusion or when there is no recidivism,

remand

be replaced by house arrest in

cases in which the person processed has a

disability greater than fifty percent certified by

CONADIS, suffer from catastrophic disease, is

older than sixty years of age, or a pregnant woman

or parturient, and in the latter case up to ninety days

after delivery. This period may be extended when the

child or child would have been born with diseases that require

the care of the mother, until they are exceeded. "

Art. 14.- Add in item 7 of item 209, then word "processed" the following sentence: "and send to the prosecutor

or the prosecutor, the arrest record".

Art. 15.- In the third indent of the third added article added after Article 226, replace the

sentence: "order of appeal to judgment when the opinion

is of charge", by the phrase " the self-resolutability

corresponding ".

Art. 16.- Following the fifth indent of Article 278, add the following:

" The secretaries of the judiciary, or those who

legally subsuit, will send the Council monthly to the Council

listing of the hearings performed and

failed, with due indication of the

servers

servers that did not attend the same and the causes of the

inattendance ".

Art. 17.- Replace the numeral 1 of article 343, by the following:

" 1. Of the nullity, action prescription,

dismissal and inhibition cars because of

incompetence. "

GENERAL CHOICE

The performance and decisions of judges and judges, prosecutors,

advocates and other judicial servers, police officers, and other

public officials, in the exercise of their duties

will respect the jurisdiction and competence of the authorities

indigenous determined in Art. 171 of the Constitution and

343 of the Organic Code of the Judicial Function and will have

in mind the constitutional rights, the principles of

intercultural justice and the decline of competencies

established in Articles 344 and 345 of the

Organic Code of the Judicial Function.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FIRST.- The processes, actions and procedures of investigation that are currently being processed,

will continue to be substantiated according to the

rules in force at the time of its start and up to its

conclusion.

The processes, actions, and procedures of

investigation into scam and other fraud offenses,

home violation, disclosure of factory secrets,

theft and injuries that do not exceed thirty days of

disease or disability for the job, which were

dismissed or filed under the

interpretation of article 10 of the reforms to the Code of

Criminal Procedure, published in the Official Registration

Supplement 555 of 24 March 2009, may

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substantiating as public action crimes. The actions

in these cases will be prescribed in accordance with the rules

set out in the Criminal Code for Action Crimes

public, and the time elapsed from the 24

from March 2009 to before the entry into force of

the present reform.

SECOND.- All the hearings set out in the Criminal Procedure Code will be applicable and

immediate implementation.

THIRD.- In the following 30 days of the entry into force of this reform, the Ministry of Justice will hire

an external audit that will have to present a report

detailing the performance of the criminal justice judges

and the prosecutors across the country; regarding the exercise of all

their constitutional responsibilities and legal.

Art. Final.- This law shall enter into force from its publication in the Official Register.

Given and subscribed to the headquarters of the National Assembly,

located in the Metropolitan District of Quito, province of

Pichincha, at the eighteen day of the month of March two thousand

ten.

f.) Fernando Cordero Cueva, President.

f.) Dr. Francisco Vergara O., Secretary General.

CERTIFIED that the National Assembly discussed and approved the LAW REFORM OF THE CODE CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE, in the first debate on December 29, 2009 and January 12, 2010,

in the second debate on February 4, 2010 and was delivered

on the partial objection of the President of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic

Korea.

March 18, 2010.

Quito, March 23, 2010.

f.) Dr. Francisco Vergara O., Secretary General.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

THE PLENO

Considering:

What, Article 120, number 9 of the Constitution of the

Republic determines: " Art. 120.-The National Assembly

will have the following powers and duties, in addition to the

that determines the law: 9. Audit the actions of the

Executive, Electoral and Transparency and Control functions

Social, and the other organs of the public power, and require

the public servants and servers the information that

consider necessary. ";

What, Article 128 of the Supreme Charter has: " Art.

128.-The Assemblymen and Assemblymen will enjoy fuero

of the National Court of Justice during the exercise of their

functions; they will not be civil or criminally responsible for

the opinions they issue or the decisions or acts that

perform in the exercise of their functions, in and out of

the National Assembly.

To initiate criminal proceedings against an Assemblywoman or

an Assemblymember will require prior authorization from the

Assembly National, except in cases that are not

found related to the exercise of their functions.

If the request of the judge or competent judge in which you ask

authorization for prosecution is not answers in

30 days time, it will be understood. During

break periods will suspend the term decurso

mentioned. They will only be deprived of liberty in the event of

flagrant crime or enforced sentence .... ";

Which, in accordance with the constitutional principle

invoked in the previous recital, Article 111 of

Organic Law of the Legislative Function ratifies the enjoyment of the

parliamentary immunity in favor of the assembly,

interpreting the doctrine in the sense that " the legislators,

to fulfill their mission, must enjoy complete security

and to do so are granted certain prerogatives that are received by the

name of parliamentary immunities and whose purpose is

to rid them of all kinds of obstacles that the authorities or

any citizen could oppose to the exercise of their

functions and to expose them of all

persecutions and damages against them could be

attempt. " (IZAGA P. L. S. J. Elements of Law

Politico);

What, the Office of the Rapporteur (e) of the First Criminal Chamber of

the National Court of Justice, by trade No. 0261-

PSP-CNJ of 25 February 2010, has position in

knowledge of the President of the National Assembly the

providence of that Chamber, for which the

prior authorization is requested to initiate the criminal case against the

Mr. Asambleista Tito Galo Lara Yepez, within the

complaint filed by Mr. Oscar Herrera Gilbert; and,

your constitutional and legal powers,

Resolve:

1. In accordance with the requirements of Article 128 of the

Constitution of the Republic, in agreement with the

Article 111 of the Organic Law of the Function

Legislative, to deny the authorization for the beginning of the

cause

Lara Yepez

inside the complaint filed by the

Mr. Oscar Herrera Gilbert, requested by Dr.

Luis Moyano Alarcon, National Judge, by

providence of the First Chamber of the Criminal, 24 of

February 2010.

2. Sue the Judicial Function, in the person of the

Mr. President of the National Court of Justice, for

that instructs the Courts, judges, prosecutors and courts,

to strictly comply with the provisions of the

Articles 128 of the Constitution of the Republic and 111

of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function,

respectively, according to which the assemblymen and the

assemblymen will enjoy the National Court of Justice of

Justice during the exercise of their duties; they will not be

civil or criminally responsible for the opinions that

issue or the decisions or acts they perform in the

exercise of their functions, in and out of the

National Assembly.