The deputy attorney Yeni Berenice Reynoso advocated this Wednesday for a policy of agreements in the justice processes of the Dominican Republic so that there is a timely response, which is one of the purposes of the system and the criminal procedural law.
In that sense, he defended the role pursuer who plays Public Ministry, to seek alternative solutions to the cases and stated that one of the great challenges that has the system justice is to generate a policy articulated between the different actors of the system.
He maintained that they have put special focus on that alternative, in the policy they have implemented in the last four years.
- “We have put special focus on improving response time and we, the Attorney General of the Republic, Miriam Germán Brito, have also assumed a policy together with the Directorate of Prosecution and other of our main bodies at the operational level such as the specialized attorney offices and the prosecutor’s offices, dand reach agreementsto look for alternative solutions to the processes,” he said.
During his intervention in the Seminar Commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of the Criminal Procedure Code, Reynoso cited a German judge, whose name he did not mention, who said that “no State is capable of handling, under a litigation scheme, all the instances of a process, all the cases that occur in their territory until a final decision.
He argued that if this is in Germany, which has many economic resources, in the Dominican Republic, the conditions must be created with more reason.
- “The policy of agreements It is a necessary policy,” he stressed.
“The Public Ministry agrees, there are no cases in which we do not agree, and I come back and say it to the Public Defense, we agree on all the cases, there is no veto, that this case is serious, we agree, but we agree to a penalty that “fits the characteristics of the case”MP Persecution Director
Likewise, he said that one should not feel fear in applying the agreements between the parties.
“I tell the Public Defense, we agree on all cases, there is no veto. Is this case serious? We agreed to it, but we agreed to it with a penalty that fits the objective characteristics of the case,” Reynoso stressed.
Advances and challenges
Reynoso said that in these two decades of the Criminal Procedure Code there have been progressbut also challenges.
When talking about the transformationscited the quality of the access to the justice for all parties.
- “He access to the justice It is a guarantee to society that the system of justice It works, what’s there? answers and that those answers many times they are not positive for the prosecuting body,” he said.
He stated that one of the enormous challenges they face is precisely to improve the quality in it access to the justice.
