Yes, the crime of drunk driving is punishable by imprisonment, but the sentence will depend on the seriousness of the facts and the criminal record of the perpetrator. If a driver passes a breathalyzer test, the rate of 0.60 mg/l of exhaled air or 1.2 grams...
The rise of social networks and the apparent anonymity provided by the Internet has led to the appearance of influencer haterspeople who dedicate their time to belittle, insult, threaten and publicly humiliate those people with the ability to influence who have turned their lifestyle into...
The new forms of urban and personal mobility that have emerged in recent years in our cities have generated new legal issues that are becoming more and more frequent among users. If I have been convicted of a crime against road safety and sentenced to a...
What happens when the only evidence incriminating the defendant for a crime of sexual abuse or assault is the statement of the alleged victim? What happens when there are no direct witnesses to the facts to corroborate the complainant's version? Well, the victim's statementThe Supreme Court and...
We are faced with a situation in which, in order to defend ourselves, we have had no alternative but to injure the aggressor, and now the aggressor has denounced us for the injuries we have caused him. Will our harmful conduct go unpunished? In what...
With the increasingly widespread use of social networks, communication between all of us has increased enormously. It is an increasingly common practice, especially among young people, to send their own images (the famous "nudes or packs") between partners, friends, acquaintances and not so acquaintances. Well, the...
This is the question that any person asks himself when he has a trial date and the Public Prosecutor's Office or the Private Prosecution requests that, if the facts are considered proven, a prison sentence be imposed on the accused. So how do you assess the...
There is no doubt that confinement makes crime more difficult, and the authorities have found that the commission of crimes has been reduced by half. However, behind this presumably good news, from SAGUÉ ABOGADOS PENALISTAS we want to warn that the increase of digital communications...
When a person is remanded in custody and subsequently acquitted or dismissed (the case is closed with respect to that person), it is clear that he has been deprived of his fundamental right to freedom, one of the most important fundamental rights protected by our...
Among the different types of penalties provided for in the Penal Code, Community Benefit Works (hereinafter, CBC), a penalty considered as deprivation of rights (not of freedom), consisting of the performance of public utility activities by the convicted person for a certain period of time,...
