Evidence agreements in the trial stage in the criminal process.

Abstract

The procedural stages in the criminal justice system: ministerial, complementary, intermediate investigation and trial involve a series of procedural acts. There are procedural rules in the National Code of Criminal Procedures that establish an order in the procedure that allows respect for due process and gives legal certainty to the contending parties. It is in the intermediate stage, in which, among other acts, the parties reach evidentiary agreements. Likewise, before issuing the opening order for trial, which is the act with which the aforementioned procedural stage concludes, they may propose an alternative solution mechanism or an early termination. This article addresses this topic.