Running out the clock : how Guatemala's courts could doom the fight against impunity / [Mirte Postema].
2017
JL1489.5.C6 P68 2017 (Map It)
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Title
Running out the clock : how Guatemala's courts could doom the fight against impunity / [Mirte Postema].
Published
[New York] : Human Rights Watch, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
JL1489.5.C6 P68 2017
Former Call Number
Gua 824 P846 2017
Spine Title
Guatemala : running out the clock
ISBN
9781623135447
1623135443
1623135443
Description
56 pages ; 27 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1013472638
Summary
Methodology -- Instruments of delay: amparos and recusals -- Causes of delay: how judges and lawyers undermine criminal proceedings -- Current cases -- Past cases -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgments.
"Guatemala has made dramatic progress in the fight against impunity thanks to the joint efforts of local prosecutors and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). The most celebrated accomplishments of this partnership came in 2015 when they exposed multiple corruption schemes, implicating officials in all three branches of government, and prompting the resignation and arrest of the country's president and vice president. Yet now, more than two years after these arrests, these cases have yet to go to trial ... . ... The derailing of justice in these critical cases is only possible because the country's judicial authorities allow it. The Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court could act to end the delays, but they have not, instead contributing to them by their own failure to comply with the time limits that Guatemalan law establishes for resolving petitions. Time is running out CICIG's mandate to operate in Guatemala ends in September 2019, while the term of the current attorney general expires in May 2018. If defense lawyers can run out the clock on the prosecutors, there is a serious risk that efforts to prosecute the cases will fail, and the forces of corruption and impunity prevail."--Back cover.
"Guatemala has made dramatic progress in the fight against impunity thanks to the joint efforts of local prosecutors and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). The most celebrated accomplishments of this partnership came in 2015 when they exposed multiple corruption schemes, implicating officials in all three branches of government, and prompting the resignation and arrest of the country's president and vice president. Yet now, more than two years after these arrests, these cases have yet to go to trial ... . ... The derailing of justice in these critical cases is only possible because the country's judicial authorities allow it. The Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court could act to end the delays, but they have not, instead contributing to them by their own failure to comply with the time limits that Guatemalan law establishes for resolving petitions. Time is running out CICIG's mandate to operate in Guatemala ends in September 2019, while the term of the current attorney general expires in May 2018. If defense lawyers can run out the clock on the prosecutors, there is a serious risk that efforts to prosecute the cases will fail, and the forces of corruption and impunity prevail."--Back cover.
Note
"This report was researched and written by Mirte Postema, Americas Division consultant"--Page 56.
"November 2017"--Spine.
"November 2017"--Spine.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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