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The ne bis in idem principle in Chilean criminal law

Authors

  • Juan Pablo Mañalich Raffo Profesor asociado del Departamento de Ciencias Penales, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The article offers a reconstruction of the substantive and procedural status of the ne bis in idem principle under Chilean criminal law. After establishing its grounding and reach, as well as differentiating its several contexts of application, the article analyses the various meanings of the term "deed" which are significant for the principle's operation, namely: the concept of "criminal deed", the concept of "deed unity" and the concept of the "trial's object". By this means a basis is gained in order to determine the application conditions as well as the normative consequences of the ne bis in idem principle in each one of its three contexts of relevance for the criminal law: the intra-trial context, the inter-trial context and the inter-jurisdictional context.    

Keywords:

ne bis in idem, offence-plurality, concept of deed, application contexts