C-578 de 1995
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Reporting justice Eduardo Cifuentes Muñoz
✓Claimant Jaime Cordoba Triviño
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- Límites
- Improcedencia de exoneración
- Ejercicio ilegítimo
- No son absolutos
- Validez en el orden interno
- No deliberante
- Principios son aplicables a la fuerza pública
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- En merito de lo expuesto, la Corte Constitucional,
- R E S U E L V E
- Declarar la EXEQUIBIBILIDAD del articulo 15 del Decreto 0085 de 1989, "Por el cual se reforma el Reglamento de Regimen Disciplinario para las Fuerzas Militares", siempre que se entienda que las ordenes militares violatorias de los derechos fundamentales intangibles e inescindibles de la dignidad humana (Ley 137 de 1994, articulo 4o), no deben ser ejecutadas y que, en caso de serlo, tales ordenes no podran ser alegadas como eximentes de responsabilidad.
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