New Criminal Judicial System in Mexico and a National Penal Procedure Code (single procedure code) for Federal and Local jurisdiction.
In June of 2008, Mexico approved a reform to transform its judicial system from inquisitorial to accusatorial with the purpose to be fairer to defendants, protect human rights, reducing wrongful convictions, fully endorse the now explicit “innocence presumption and with the use of preventive prison only as an exceptional mechanism. A period of 8 years…