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Commented criminal case law

Supreme Court and Constitutional Court case law, connected with criminal services.

The dThe Supreme Court chips are editorial synthesis supported by official CGPJ notes; the resolution identified by ECLI is linked and, when available in the file, its official PDF. The Constitution retains its published synthesis. Each matter should be read with the law applicable to its facts and subsequent reforms.

200 Resolutions

Supreme Court · Second Room · 2023

A stampede and negligent injury

The Supreme Court upheld negligent-injury convictions arising from conduct in a metro carriage that caused passengers to flee. It examined the danger created and the injuries suffered during the stampede.

ECLI:ES:TS:2023:4881

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Constitutional Court · Road safety

STC 55/2015: Trial Recording and Evidence

Alleged violation of the rights to the effective judicial protection and the presumption of innocence: lack of documentation of the oral hearing not causing defencelessness, control of judicial evaluation...

STC 55/2015

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Constitutional Court · Gender violence and protection

STC 41/2025: Dispensed to testify and couple

Alleged violation of the rights to a trial with all guarantees, to the ordinary judge predetermined by law and to the presumption of innocence: assessment of the testimony of those who, being a couple...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:41

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Constitutional Court · Gender violence and protection

STC 78/2021: Criminal action after filing

Violation of the right to criminal legality: conviction imposed for failure to comply with a measure taken in criminal proceedings that had been discontinued.

ECLI:ES:TC:2021:78

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Constitutional Court · Injury and integrity

STC 108/2024: Repeal a judgment of acquittal

Violation of the rights to effective judicial protection (resolution based on law) and the presumption of innocence: STC 72/2024 (revocation of judgment of acquittal based on a discrepancy...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:108

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Constitutional Court · Injury and integrity

STC 105/2024: Investigation of prison injuries

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection, in relation to the right to physical and moral integrity: insufficient investigation of a complaint of injuries and ill-treatment that are said to be a ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:105

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Constitutional Court · Public health

STC 87/2024: undercover agent and privacy

Alleged violation of the rights to privacy, to the effective judicial protection and to a process with all guarantees: evidence provided by undercover agent that does not affect privacy and having...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:87

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Constitutional Court · Injury and integrity

STC 48/2024: mitigating circumstance of undue delay

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sex: application as qualified of the mitigating circumstance circumstance of delays ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:48

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Constitutional Court · Injury and integrity

STC 33/2024: Assaults in police custody

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection, in relation to the right to physical and moral integrity: insufficient investigation of a complaint of assaults that are said to have suffered under the conditions of ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:33

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Constitutional Court · Public health

STC 92/2023: Cameras in a private garage

Violation of the personal right to privacy; alleged violation of the right to the effective judicial protection (access to the remedy): capture of images inside a private garage taken to ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2023:92

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Constitutional Court · Scams and heritage

STC 64/2023: limitation of sentences

Violation of the right to criminal legality, in relation to the rights to effective judicial protection and to personal freedom: judicial decisions that do not satisfy the canon reinforced in mater...

ECLI:ES:TC:2023:64

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Constitutional Court · Injury and integrity

STC 59/2023: Impartiality and Expert Evidence

Alleged violation of the rights to judicial impartiality, to the effective judicial protection and to the presumption of innocence: intervention of the judge in the oral hearing that did not compromise her neu...

ECLI:ES:TC:2023:59

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Constitutional Court · Public health

STC 32/2023: Deprivation of liberty for extradition

Violation of the right to personal liberty: cars that do not compute the period of deprivation of liberty that the Colombian and Spanish authorities used to process and resolve the process of imprisonment.

ECLI:ES:TC:2023:32

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Constitutional Court · Injury and integrity

STC 41/2022: Translation of the Criminal Sentence

Violation of the rights to the effective judicial protection (access to the legal remedy) and to a process with all guarantees: lack of translation of the sentence handed down on appeal that deprived the...

ECLI:ES:TC:2022:41

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Constitutional Court · Criminal execution

STC 32/2022: Suspension of prison and compensation

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (motivation) in relation to the rights to personal liberty and due process: revocation of the suspension of prison sentence to the non-existence of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2022:32

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Constitutional Court · Scams and heritage

STC 11/2022: Criminal Rating and Law of defence

Alleged violation of the rights to a trial with all guarantees, not to testify against oneself and the presumption of innocence; alleged violation of the right to effective judicial protection ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2022:11

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Constitutional Court · Public health

STC 165/2021: Conviction without prosecution

Violation of the rights to the defence and to a trial with all guarantees: conviction for a crime to which he had been acquitted at the trial and without a petition from the prosecution party.

ECLI:ES:TC:2021:165

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Constitutional Court · Public health

STC 132/2021: Aggravated sentence on appeal

Violation of the rights to the effective judicial protection (reformatio in peius) and to a trial with all guarantees: sentence that aggravates the sentence imposed on the basis of the existence of a mistake...

ECLI:ES:TC:2021:132

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Constitutional Court · Scams and heritage

STC 61/2019: Test omitted from computer failure

Violation of the rights to judicial protection without defencelessness and to the presumption of innocence: preterition of evidence resulting from the defective functioning of the computer platform and of the office of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2019:61

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Constitutional Court · Public health

STC 37/2018: Personal test in cassation

Violation of the rights to a trial with all guarantees and to the defence: conviction in cassation imposed on the basis of a new assessment of personal evidence carried out without guarantee of immediacy...

ECLI:ES:TC:2018:37

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Constitutional Court · Injury and integrity

STC 223/2015: Aggravated sentence upon appeal

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection: Judgment that, partially estimating the appeal filed exclusively by the defendant, aggravates the sentence imposed by the defendant.

STC 223/2015

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Constitutional Court · Robbery and theft

STC 63/2015: Reasons for the statute of limitations

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the rights to personal liberty and criminal legality: judicial decisions that do not satisfy the canon of motivation strengthen the right to...

STC 63/2015

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Constitutional Court · Public health

STC 33/2015: Confession at the police station

Alleged violation of the rights to the effective judicial protection, to a trial with all guarantees and to the presumption of innocence: value of self-incriminating statements rendered in dilig...

STC 33/2015

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 52/2026: Honor and posts on Facebook

Alleged violation of freedom of expression and information: harmful information of the right to honor of two policemen spread through the social network Facebook without the previous use of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2026:52

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 39/2026: Non-compliance with prison suspension

Alleged violation of the right to effective judicial protection in connection with the right to personal liberty: reasoned revocation of the conditional suspension of the execution of a custodial sentence...

ECLI:ES:TC:2026:39

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 33/2026: Probatory review of a acquittal

Violation of the rights to effective judicial protection and the presumption of innocence: revocation of judgment of acquittal based on a reassessment of the evidence without disqualifying...

ECLI:ES:TC:2026:33

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 31/2026: Trial Recording and acquittal

Violation of the rights to effective judicial protection (law-based resolution) and to a process with all guarantees: revocation of judgment of acquittal based on the claim that ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2026:31

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 21/2026: Judicial control of detention

Violation of the right to personal liberty: denial, on grounds of substance and without preserving the guarantee of direct examination of the evidence by the trial court, of judicial control of a deprivation of liberty through the procedure ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2026:21

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 15/2026: Access of the investigator to the case

Violation of the rights to personal liberty and to the defence: denial of real and effective access by the investigated person to the essential elements of the proceedings that allow him to exercise a defe...

ECLI:ES:TC:2026:15

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 2/2026: Compensation and suspension of imprisonment

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right to personal liberty: STC 32/2022 (revocation of the suspension of prison sentence, as the right to liberty has not been satisfied).

ECLI:ES:TC:2026:2

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 188/2025: Access to performances and habeas corpus

Violation of the right to personal liberty: rejection of a petition from habeas corpus without providing the applicant's legal defence with the elements of the proceedings that are essential to...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:188

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 183/2025: Suspension and personal circumstances

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right to personal freedom: judicial decisions that do not satisfy the canon of reinforced motivation by revoking the suspension of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:183

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 182/2025: Delimitation of amnesty

Principles of legal certainty and interdiction of arbitrariness; democratic principle, political pluralism and constitutional supremacy; right to equality; separation of powers and reservation of rights.

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:182

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 181/2025: Constitutional control of amnesty

Principles of legal certainty and interdiction of arbitrariness; democratic principle, political pluralism and constitutional supremacy; right to equality; separation of powers and reservation of rights.

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:181

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 180/2025: Amnesty and loss of object

Principles of legal certainty and interdiction of arbitrariness; democratic principle, political pluralism and constitutional supremacy; right to equality; separation of powers and reservation of rights.

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:180

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 164/2025: Scope of the amnesty

Principles of equality, legal certainty and prohibition of arbitrariness; reservation of jurisdiction: partial unconstitutionality of the delimitation of the objective scope of application of the law (STC...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:164

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 155/2025: Jury and revision of acquittal

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (non bis in idem): revocation of a judgment of acquittal for irregularity suffered on the occasion of the return of the jury's verdict...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:155

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 132/2025: Loss of the object

Alleged violation of the rights to political participation, in relation to personal freedom and freedom of movement; equality, the effective judicial protection (motivation), the judge or...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:132

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 126/2025: Investigation of possible homicide

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right to life: insufficient investigation of a possible crime of homicide, in his case murder; lack of due attention...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:126

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 117/2025: Intimacy in criminal prosecution

Violation of the rights to freedom of expression and to freedom of artistic creation: judicial decisions that, in the criminal prosecution of the so-called “tour de la manada” dispensed with the right to...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:117

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 110/2025: Appeal against review of conviction

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (access to appeal): right to a devolutional appeal against judicial decisions to review a conviction; lack of legal provision for the right to appeal.

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:110

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 106/2025: Application period for amparo

Alleged violation of personal freedom in connection with the rights to judicial protection and the defence: inadmissibility of the constitutional protection appeal extemporaneously filed.

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:106

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 105/2025: Indictment and review appeal

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (access to the remedy): right, from whom the private prosecution by the victim has exercised, to the devolutional appeal against judicial decisions of review of the right of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:105

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 86/2025: defence and hearing in habeas corpus

Violation of the right to personal liberty: rejection of a request by habeas corpus without hearing of the applicant and without providing him with the elements of the proceedings that are essential to the ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:86

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 51/2025: Failure to comply with court decisions

Alleged violation of the right to criminal legality: reasonable interpretation and in accordance with the constitutional requirements of the legal precept that criminalizes non-compliance by public officials ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:51

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 49/2025: Capacity to pay and suspend

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right to personal liberty: revocation of the suspension of prison sentence, as the responsibility ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:49

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 37/2025: Reason for revocation of suspension

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right to personal freedom: judicial decisions that do not satisfy the canon of reinforced motivation by revoking the suspension of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:37

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 31/2025: Proof and inviolability of domicile

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (motivation): a judicial decision that, without properly weighing the right to inviolability of the home, incorporates the evidence in the case.

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:31

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 3/2025: Detention and maximum term of imprisonment

Violation of the right to personal liberty: judicial decisions that disproportionately limited the right since they did not include the days of police detention in the calculation of the maximum period of time...

ECLI:ES:TC:2025:3

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 144/2024: Investigation of death in custody

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection without defencelessness in relation to the right to life and to physical and moral integrity: insufficient investigation of a death occurring in...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:144

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 133/2024: Motivation of a acquittal

Alleged violation of the rights to effective judicial protection (motivation) and defence: a judicial acquittal that expresses the legal grounds underlying the ad...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:133

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 125/2024: Loss of object of the process

Alleged violation of the rights of effective judicial protection, defence and a process with all guarantees: termination of the proceedings for disappearance of its object.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:125

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 124/2024: Guarantee of a court hearing

Violation of the rights to effective judicial protection, defence and a process with all the guarantees: judicial decisions that dispense materially with the guarantee of the hearing. I vote...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:124

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 123/2024: Location of the prosecution

Violation of the right to judicial protection without defence: failure to take action in the successive procedural proceedings to which private prosecution by the victim was a party. Votes particle...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:123

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 122/2024: civil liability and suspension

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (motivation) in relation to the right to personal liberty: revocation of the suspension of prison sentence, as the right to liberty has not been satisfied.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:122

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 118/2024: Deadline for action

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (access to jurisdiction): over-formalistic interpretation of the expiry period of the action that does not take into account exceptional circumstances...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:118

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 107/2024: Nullity and default judge

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (inangibility of final court decisions): improper use of the incident of nullity of proceedings to the detriment of the appeal ...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:107

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 101/2024: Test evaluation and guarantees

Alleged violation of the rights to honor, to effective judicial protection, to a process with all guarantees and to the presumption of innocence: reasoned judicial assessment of the complex acquis prob...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:101

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 100/2024: Constitutional boundaries of type

Violation of the right to criminal legality and the presumption of innocence: conviction based on an unforeseeable interpretation of the objective type. Individual opinions.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:100

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 98/2024: Guarantee of criminal legality

Violation of the right to criminal legality and the presumption of innocence: conviction based on an unforeseeable interpretation of the objective type. Individual opinions.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:98

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 97/2024: Type and legal certainty

Violation of the right to criminal legality and the presumption of innocence: conviction based on an unforeseeable interpretation of the objective type. Individual opinions.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:97

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 96/2024: Limits of criminal interpretation

Violation of the right to criminal legality and the presumption of innocence: conviction based on an unforeseeable interpretation of the objective type. Individual opinions.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:96

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 94/2024: Legality of criminal interpretation

Violation of the right to criminal legality and the presumption of innocence: conviction based on an unforeseeable interpretation of the objective type. Individual opinions.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:94

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 90/2024: Application requirements for amparo

Alleged violation of the rights to effective judicial protection and the presumption of innocence: an application for amparo that does not meet the minimum requirements of the burden of pleading.

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:90

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 85/2024: Hearing in habeas corpus

Violation of the right to personal liberty (judicial control of detention): wrongful refusal of a request by habeas corpus decreed on grounds of substance without hearing of the request for a...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:85

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 80/2024: Testimonies and conviction in cassation

Violation of the rights to a trial with all guarantees (double criminal instance) and to the presumption of innocence: conviction in cassation that dispenses with the direct examination of the person's testimony...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:80

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 78/2024: Impayment and suspension of prison

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right to personal liberty: revocation of the suspension of a custodial sentence due to failure to comply with the respo...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:78

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 77/2024: Test and review of acquittal

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection (law-based decision): revocation of the judgment of acquittal based on a discrepancy in the assessment of the evidence involving an ex...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:77

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 72/2024: Review of a criminal acquittal

Violation of the rights to effective judicial protection and the presumption of innocence: overturning an acquittal following a disagreement over the assessment of evidence…

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:72

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 70/2024: Revocation of prison suspension

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in relation to the right to personal liberty: revocation of the suspension of a custodial sentence due to failure to comply with the respo...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:70

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 57/2024: Proportionality in extradition

Alleged violation of the rights to personal freedom, to the effective judicial protection and to a trial with all guarantees: judicial decisions that agree to extradition from one day to...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:57

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 52/2024: Need for extradition

Alleged violation of the rights to personal freedom, to the effective judicial protection and to a trial with all guarantees: judicial decisions that agree to extradition from one day to...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:52

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 51/2024: Judicial control of extradition

Alleged violation of the rights to personal liberty, to the effective judicial protection and to a trial with all guarantees: STC 17/2024 (judicial resolutions that agree to extradition to the country of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:51

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 43/2024: Guarantees of extradition

Alleged violation from the rights to the effective judicial protection, from defence, to a process with all guarantees and personal freedom: STC 17/2024 (judicial resolutions that agree to the extr...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:43

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 42/2024: Extradition and proportionality

Alleged violation from the rights to the effective judicial protection, from defence, to a process with all guarantees and personal freedom: STC 17/2024 (judicial resolutions that agree to the extr...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:42

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 39/2024: Suspension of prison and payment

Violation of the right to effective judicial protection in connection with personal liberty: revocation of a suspended prison sentence because civil compensation had not been paid…

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:39

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Constitutional Court · Guarantees of criminal proceedings

STC 37/2024: Extradition documentation

Alleged violation from the rights to the effective judicial protection, to a process with all guarantees and personal freedom: STC 17/2024 (judicial resolutions that agree to extradition to the country of...

ECLI:ES:TC:2024:37

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