Criminal procedural systems: a historical analysis in search of the real truth

Abstract

This article aims to bring an analysis of the current criminal procedural systems, these being: the Accusatory, Inquisitorial and Mixed systems, means by which the set of rules and principles governing Criminal Procedural Law in the contemporary world are organized. The intention is to bring a brief approach between the Accusatory System, which is based on the constitutional and legislative compliance of the laws in the Criminal Procedure that leaves the functions of the trial procedure well divided between different people, ensuring impartiality; the Inquisitorial, which has as its premise, the accumulation of the functions of, judge, accuse, and defend in the same jurisdictional entity, which characterizes a partial system; and the Mixed System, which at first, according to its own nomenclature, the fusion between the two procedural systems previously mentioned is noted. It is glimpsed, therefore, the relationship of '' real truth '' with the three types of criminal procedural systems, in addition to comparing with the truth sought and adopted by the Catholic Church in the Inquisition.