Constitución en Inglés

336 constituteproject.org Colombia 2021 Matters of Competence <Ruled unconstitutional> Revision of Sentences and Findings By request of a convicted party, the JEP may reexamine sentencing decisions of the Attorney General’s Office or the Comptroller General of the Republic and sentences issued by other jurisdictions concerning the following: variation of juridical qualification according to Transitional Article 5 and of Transitional Article 22, Subsection 1; newfindings of fact that couldnot be taken into account previously; or emergence of evidence or supervening evidence that was not known at the time of the conviction. All of the above causes for revision must be for acts committed because of, or that were the occasion of, or direct or indirectly related to the conflict, or with social protest, as long as the System’s conditions are met. The revision of sentences by the JEP will never result in liability being imposed on any type of judges who issued the sentences as a consequence of the content of these sentences, without prejudice to any responsibility that may be found for having improperly favored their own interests or others’ interests. The Supreme Court of Justice will be the competent court to reexamine sentences that it has issued. Only those who have been convicted based on their status as combatants will be able to request a revision of previous verdicts before the Revision of Sentences Section of the JEP. For the sole effects of reexamining sentences by the Revision of Sentences Section of the JEP, the term “combatant” will be understood to mean all members of the public force and members of the FARC-EP based on the lists that were turned TRANSITIONAL ARTICLE 9 TRANSITIONAL ARTICLE 10