Talk:Audiencia Nacional of Spain
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Shouldn't this article be located at Audiencia Nacional de España? Slicing 08:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure about the accuracy of this article. Baltasar Garzón is not a judge in the Audiencia Nacional, but an Instructor or investigation judge of the cases that, afterwords will be judged by this court. Although even the mass media in Spain do not understand this, the law is clear: The Juzgados Centrales de Instrucción and the Audiencia Nacional ([http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Admin/lo6-1985.l1t4.html articles 62-69 of this law)are two different courts, as can be read in the Organic Law about the Judicial Power in Spain. There are different tribunals with seat in Madrid and jurisdiction over all Spain: the Audiencia Nacional (articles 62-69), a tribunal that acts with three magistrates (as can be seen in 11-M case), but there are several Juzgados, with just one magistrate:
- Juzgados Centrales de Instrucción (art. 88) one of them served by Garzón, that investigates but do not judge;
- Juzgados Centrales de lo Penal (art. 89 bis 3), that judge the same kind of crimes as the Audiencia Nacional, but when the punishment is lower;
- Juzgados Centrales de Vigilancia Penitenciaria (art. 94.4). This tribunal do not investigate or judge, but resolve questions about the people already condemned and who are in prison;
- Juzgado Central de Menores (art. 96.2): judges the same crimes as the Audiencia Nacional and Juzgados Centrales de lo Penal, but when the crimes are commited by people who are not eighteen years old yet.
But I'm not sure how to write and explain all this in good English.--Joanenglish 17:31, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
