Los operadores de justicia: los jurados de conciencia

Abstract

This article analyzes the essential modalities of the jury of conscience, still in force in some countries of the world, especially in the United States of America, a leader in procedures and in strict compliance with the standard model for Latin American Countries. This leads to wonder about the origin and success of the Jurors of Consciences in the North American Penal System. With that in mid, why has not this been adopted and implemented in Colombian cases? For this purpose, a review the existence of the figure through history and its projections in the legal field, the meaning of a Jury of Conscience, the difference of the activity of the Jury and that of the Judge of law operators of justice within the same process; to what was observed in one of the hearing in a court of law in the state of Florida, without leaving and analyzing the defects, inconveniences and possible negative and positive results could lie within penal system.