Evidencia electrónica y procesal penal

The Digital Era has increased the number of criminal cases based on a new source of evidence: electronic evidence. This has introduced realms of privacy that the constitutional state and the criminal process must protect to ensure that punitive power, in search of that evidence, does not turn the seizure and search of electronic devices into exploratory hunts that sweep away people's privacy, make it obsolete, and lead to a world without privacy. This book argues that the Colombian accusatory system was implemented with a serious flaw in the protection of the right to privacy, which resulted in a deficit of protection in investigative actions aimed at collecting electronic evidence. In search of a solution, a review of Colombian law is conducted and the experience of other countries, particularly the United States of America, is brought in to propose a change in the paradigm of digital evidence seizure and search dynamics and their production methods, so that they do not continue to drain valuable content from such a fundamental right.

Contenido

Estudio preliminar 9

Introducción 27

I. Régimen normativo y jurisprudencial 33

A. Régimen normativo 33

1. Fundamentos convencionales 33

2. Fundamentos constitucionales 39

3. Fundamentos legales 54

a. Código de Procedimiento Penal 54

b. Código Penal 72

4. Balance 74

B. Régimen jurisprudencial 78

1. Corte Constitucional 79

a. Desarrollos iniciales 79

b. En el sistema penal acusatorio 86

c. Línea jurisprudencial 101

2. La Corte Suprema de Justicia 119

a. La Corte Suprema como segunda instancia de las decisiones 

de los magistrados con funciones de control de garantías de 

las salas de justicia y paz de los tribunales superiores 119

b. La Corte Suprema como tribunal de apelaciones en los 

procesos de aforados 127

c. La Corte Suprema como autoridad de casación 129

3. Balance 132