When the fact occurs criminal pay attention The course that follows this is closely related to the timely investigation, by competent agents, of three simultaneous and necessary, inevitable elements, which are the ones that will ultimately tell us whether we are faced with the presence of a punishable offense or not.
I remember, in this sense, when I taught at Faculty of Law, University of Panama I emphasized these elements to high school graduates in Criminal Procedure Law classes and always encouraged them to pay primary attention to them.
These elements are:
1. Corpus criminae: That is, the person or object on which the criminal action falls. IN murder, corpse; in physical rape, the body of the victim; in appropriation, the appropriated thing, etc.
2. Corpus instrumentum: This is the weapon, tool, instrument used or used to perform an action. V. gr. A firearm, hammer, crowbar, crowbar, rope, wire, etc., commonly used to commit a crime murders, robberies or assaults, hangings, home invasions, etc.
3. Corpus probatorium: Evidence or a set of evidence that confirms the existence of a criminal offense and the person or persons who are its authors, co-authors, or primary or secondary helpers is understood. Example: Witnesses, documents, experts, inspections, reconstructions or recreations of events and scenes; other.
AND sharp accuser, i.e. brave, He does not waste time either in the first hours or in the days immediately after the production of the criminal phenomenon.
He knows that he cannot procrastinate with investigations and that as soon as notitia criminis or news of a crime reaches him, he will be ready to carry out investigative procedures, those which, firstly, are imposed on him by the law, and secondly, all those who are relate to or surround the criminal act.
When dealing with alleged rape, he knows perfectly well that he must proceed with the medical examiner’s examination and place the alleged victim in the hands of forensic psychology or psychiatry; At the request of the prosecutor, the medical expert will immediately take a swab of the victim’s vagina in order to determine the presence of sperm, but also the presence of some tissue foreign to the victim’s anatomy. victim inside the womb care and genetic DNA studies are done; The pathologist will pay attention to the presence of bruises (bruises) or hematomas in the genital area, for genital and extragenital areas the victim and will record all this in his legal report. The forensic psychologist or psychiatrist will confirm the serious mental disorders caused by the rape in the victim, and will also record everything that, from the point of view of psychology or psychiatry, he considers necessary to present in his report.
Needless to say, in perspective legal medicine, It will also be expressed whether the alleged victim was a girl at the time of the act, whether there is a recent or old hymen tear, laceration, etc.
AND a shrewd and suspicious investigator He will not leave out the research and analysis of everything, considering the circumstances (most often called temporal-spatial and personal circumstances) that the criminal offense entails. For this purpose, the review of video cameras, recordings that remained in the area or space, will never be taken for granted; It will be exhaustive in warning subjects who were with the victim; relationships that previously existed with the victim, that addressed her, each of them will be analyzed and investigated.
Now, what would happen if the investigation came too late: Answer: There is no such thing as a perfect crime or crime. There is always a loud voice of evidence that betrays and denounces. Prosecutors must never forget that. The spirit of research, verification, search. The truth in criminal proceedings will come to light only thanks to the good will of the investigators who will go to the scene and the facts that are characterized by the fierce service of justice. You only explore if you want to.
It is researched only when there is a research zeal. A good prosecutor is Sherlock Holmes of the present time, and that, by the way, these plaintiffs are almost rare or have already died out. Such prosecutors will not care who is or is not behind the crime, whether they are white-handed, wealthy or political. The criminal will care little or nothing about his social class or background, his economic power, his social or political presence. God bless the country!
Source: Panama America
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