Análisis de la (in)eficacia del principio de obligatoriedad en el ejercicio de la acción penal en la etapa intermedia del proceso penal chileno

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This article notes that Chilean regulation does not provide, for the intermediate stage of ordinary criminal proceedings, an appropriate procedural control on the legally compulsory exercise of criminal prosecution. This lead to an state of affairs in which there are multiple and important opportunities in which, exercising the prosecutor discretion, the prosecution may be abandoned, thus reversing the original decision of the model that moved from a discretionary to a mandatory rule. Discretionary prosecution – compulsory prosecution – end of criminal investigation – provisional closure – abandon of the prosecution