The following is a guest post by Gustavo Guerra, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. He has previously published Cuban Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights, Mexican Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights, Legislation on Use of Water in Agriculture, Law Library’s Newly Published Legal Report titled, “Selected Issues in Biotechnology Regulation,” and FALQs: Cuban Legal System.
In July 2024, the Law Library of Congress published a report titled “Mexico: overview on the criminal justice system and procedures applicable to American citizens that have been accused and convicted of a crime.”
It provides a review of selected topics of the Mexican criminal justice system, including a summary of salient rules as provided by Mexico’s National Code of Penal Procedure, addressing certain aspects of criminal investigations, pretrial steps, trials, and appeals. It also includes a section with information on justice system procedures applicable to foreign citizens who have been accused and convicted of a crime in Mexico.
Read the report, here.
This report is an addition to the Law Library’s Legal Reports (Publications of the Law Library of Congress) collection, which includes over 4,000 historical and contemporary legal reports covering a variety of jurisdictions, researched and written by foreign law specialists with expertise in each area. To receive alerts when new reports are published, you can subscribe to email updates and the RSS feed for Law Library Reports (click the “subscribe” button on the Law Library’s website). The Law Library also regularly publishes articles related to technology in the Global Legal Monitor.
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