La acusación en Colombia: una reflexión en torno a su control

Abstract

This academic article examines the controls that exist over indictments in some contemporary criminal procedural systems and, in particular, those in Colombia. With regard to that system, this article makes a critical analysis of the effects of an eventual withdrawal of the indictment, as authorized by the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice, with regards to the structure of that procedural system and the rights of the victims and the defendant. Ultimately, this paper concludes that, insomuch as the accusation constitutes an act of power whose exercise or omission carries important consequences for the procedural process and the rights of the parties and those of society, there must be a formal and material judicial control for which it is useful to explain with an intermediate phase within the process.