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Request for reconsideration

Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.

What it means

A request to reconsider certain decisions of the court’s judicial officer, the Letrado de la Administración de Justicia, in statutory cases. It differs from challenges to judges’ decisions and judicial review; it is not available against every decision.

Legal reference

Spanish Criminal Procedure Act · art. 238 bis

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