From Inquisitorial to Adversarial Justice

MEXICO - Report 11 Feb 2014 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca
Executive Summary One of the weakest links in the Mexican state is its chronic inability to mete out justice in an expeditious, transparent and efficient manner. The entire justice system has lacked the minimal funding and human capital, and it is hamstrung by a more systemic weakness: its dependence on an inquisitorial system. The inquisitorial system that has existed throughout Mexico’s history is slow, impersonal and inefficient. It generally assumes all prosecutorial allegations and evidence as valid and often gives short shrift to the accused as well as the victims in a case. The judge...

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