C-554 de 2001
The official text of this ruling is in Spanish and is shown as published by the Colombian authorities.
Reporting justice Clara Inés Vargas Hernández
✓Claimant Alexander Lopez Quiroz
Topics and subtopics of the ruling
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- Excepciones
- Excepciones
- Propósitos
- No óbice para competencia
- Alcance
- Ambito
- Ambito penal y disciplinario
- Excepción
- Límite en legalidad del delito y de la sanción
- Morigeración de rigor en existencia y seguridad del Estado
- No es absoluto
- Relativización interna e internacional
- Aplicación
- Finalidad
- Prohibición
- Crímenes de trascendencia internacional
- Objeto
- Relación
- Replanteamiento de inmutabilidad
Case-law reporter's summary (what was argued and decided, in prose)
Ley 599 de 2000.
Art 8.
Codigo penal.
Normas rectoras de la ley penal colombiana.
Prohibicion de doble incriminacion.
Cosa juzgada relativa.
Principio non bis in idem frente al derecho internacional.
Exequible.
What it decided
Holdings on Ley 599/00. Hard data, verified against the operative part — citable.
Operative part (Resuelve)
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- en nombre del pueblo y por mandato de la Constitucion,
- RESUELVE:
- Declarase EXEQUIBLE la frase "salvo lo establecido en los instrumentos internacionales" del articulo 8deg del Codigo Penal.
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