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More favourable criminal law
Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.
What it means
A criminal-law reform may apply to earlier events if it benefits the person concerned, including in certain cases after a final judgment. The applicable legal regimes must be compared as a whole.
Legal reference
Spanish Criminal Code · art. 2
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