CAMARAS DE BOMBEO.

Article 457: Reviews for final guilty verdicts may be requested in the following cases:

1. If a person is sentenced for murder; further sufficient evidence is presented that the assumed murdered person is still alive.

2. If a person is sentenced for a crime; afterwards someone else is sentenced for the very same crime; both sentences could never be made compatible with each other, whereby it concludes for the innocence of one of the defendants accordingly.

3. If a ruling is issued against a person, a ruling is issued that one of the witnesses or experts gave false testimony against such a person, or if a document presented during consideration of the case is found to be false and such testimony, expert’s report or document had an impact on such ruling accordingly.

4. If the ruling is based on a ruling issued in another case and such ruling is cancelled.

5. If, after such a ruling, events or evidence that were heretofore unknown at the time of the trial and such events or evidence lead to confirming the innocence of the person against whom such ruling is issued accordingly.

6. The application for soliciting a revision is presented by the General Prosecution, at his own discretion or based on the request of the following:

One. The person with a guilty verdict or his legal representative. Two. The spouse of the person with a guilty verdict, relatives, heirs, trustees, if such person is dead.

Article 458: Prior to submitting the application to the General Prosecutor the appellant must deposit YR 500 five hundred) with the Court Cashier, as a bond, for which the provisions regarding appeals for annulment are also applicable accordingly.

Article 459: The application shall be presented to the General Prosecutor with a petition, in which the appellant shows the ruling being appealed for

accordingly; the latter shall present attached thereto all the supporting documents.

The General Prosecutor shall carry out the investigations needed accordingly; if it is evident that the basis on which the appeal is being made is incorrect or unfruitful, the application shall be filed with an irrevocable decision. In other cases, the General Prosecutor shall present the application with the investigations he undertook to the Supreme Court, with a memo showing his opinion and the reasons behind such an opinion, with in the first three months following the presentation of the application.

Article 460: Presenting a solicitation for a review of a case to the General Prosecutor does not entail suspend the execution of a sentence, unless it is for a death sentence, religiously stipulated punishments; retribution in-kind sentences, which leads to loss of life or any body organs.

In all cases, the presentation of the application to the Supreme Court inevitably entails the suspension of the sentence pending the ruling

thereof. Article 461: If the appeal is referred to the Supreme Court, the General Prosecution

shall inform the litigants on the date set for) the hearing before such session is held by at least six days.

Article 462: The Supreme Court shall hear the statements of the General Prosecution and the litigants, undertake all the investigations it deems necessary and then decisively rule on the appeal; if the Court rules to cancel the ruling being appealed and decide on the case, or return the case back to the court which issued the ruling or another department, as the Supreme Court deems appropriate.

Article 463: If a retrial is impossible, such as in the case of the death of the person against whom a ruling is issued, or if the latter became afflicted with a mental disorder, or if the criminal case fails because of the statute of limitations, the Supreme Court shall consider the issue of the case and shall only cancel such Parts of the ruling that were apparently in error. Article 464: In the event of the death of the person against whom the ruling is issued

after the Solicitation for a Review is presented thereto, the Court shall designate someone to defend his memory16, subject to such person being a relative of the deceased as much as possible, then the case shall be considered in his presence and shall be ruled decisively, if necessary, to erase anything that could tarnish such memory.

Article 465: If the person on whom a ruling is issued against claims for compensation for any damages suffered from the previous ruling, the Court may rule such compensation for him in the verdict of innocence issued in his favor accordingly.

If the person against whom a ruling is issued is deceased, his wife, parents and offspring17 may claim for compensation, but no other relatives may so claim, unless it can be proven that such a ruling caused substantial damage to them.

The claim for compensation may be presented in all the stages of the retrial.

16 _{I.e., Suggesting to set the record straight.} 17 _{Literally translated as “roots, branches”.}

Article 466: The Government shall bear the compensation ruled accordingly; the latter can collect it from the personal suitor, lying witness, expert or any other person who is the cause behind the guilty verdict.

Article 467: If a verdict of innocence upon a review of the case, the sentence shall be posted in the door of the police precinct in the municipality where the original verdict is issued, the place where the crime occurred, in the habitat of the pursuer for review of the case, in the last habitat of the person against the ruling is issued, in the Official Gazette, in two newspapers designated by the stakeholder, based on the request thereof or of the General Prosecution.

Article 468: If a ruling or verdict is cancelled based on a review or revision of the case, then this leads to the collapse of the ruling for compensations arising thereof and any amount thereof already consummated shall be duly returned.

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