C-118 de 1996
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Reporting justice Eduardo Cifuentes Muñoz
✓Claimant Alejandro De Castro Gonzalez
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- Actualización de cifras
- No tiene competencia para modificar normas
- Cuantía agravante
- Sustracción de materia
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- En merito de lo expuesto, la Corte Constitucional
- R E S U E L V E:
- PRIMERO. Declararse INHIBIDA, por sustraccion de materia, para conocer de la demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra el articulo 133 del Decreto Ley 100 de 1980 (Codigo Penal).
- SEGUNDO. ESTARSE a lo resuelto en sentencia C-070 de 1996, en relacion con el articulo 372-1 del Decreto Ley 100 de 1980 (Codigo Penal).
- TERCERO. Declarar EXEQUIBLE el inciso 2o del articulo 357 del Decreto Ley 100 de 1980 que dice "La pena se aumentara hasta en la mitad, si la cuantia del cheque fuere superior a cien mil pesos", siempre y cuando la expresion "cien mil pesos" se entienda en terminos de valor constante del ano 1981, equivalente a 18.83 salarios minimos legales mensuales vigentes.
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