The highest federal criminal appellate court below the Supreme Court, reviewing federal convictions for errors of law and, since the Supreme Court's Casal ruling, for the sufficiency of the evidence as well. It handled the appeals in the large-scale trials for dictatorship-era crimes against humanity.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- appellate
- Court type
- Court of criminal cassation
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Seat
- Buenos Aires
- Established
- 1992
- Composition
- Thirteen judges sitting in four chambers of three.
- Appointment
- Selected by competitive examination before the Consejo de la Magistratura, nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
- Languages
- Spanish
Where an appeal goes next
Recurso extraordinario federal to the Supreme Court.
Decisions worth knowing
- Casal doctrine applied2005
Broadened cassation review to cover the full reviewability of the facts found at trial.
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