{"id":521522,"date":"2010-04-09T04:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2010-04-09T04:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:39:28","slug":"more-on-the-upcoming-garzon-trial-are-amnesties-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521522","title":{"rendered":"More on the Upcoming Garzon Trial: Are Amnesties Illegal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t fully understand the nature of the legal charges against Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon. It sounds like, from this Economist <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/europe\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15875987&amp;source=hptextfeature\">article<\/a>, that he is being accused of some version of &#8220;prosecutorial&#8221; and &#8220;judicial&#8221; misconduct for refusing to follow the terms of Spain&#8217;s 1977 amnesty law preventing investigations into Franco-era crimes. \u00a0Garzon apparently held that there is a consensus that amnesties are illegal under international law and therefore could not bar his assertion of jurisdiction. \u00a0This seems like a \u00a0very sketchy legal holding, but I haven&#8217;t thought about this enough to opine with any certainty. \u00a0I am fairly confident that there is no <em><strong>consensus<\/strong><\/em> that such amnesties are illegal. But whether this is enough to find misconduct under Spanish law, I have no idea. Anyone out there with links to the relevant opinions?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/1_-L9tdq9QA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku I don&#8217;t fully understand the nature of the legal charges against Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon. It sounds like, from this Economist article, that he is being accused of some version of &#8220;prosecutorial&#8221; and &#8220;judicial&#8221; misconduct for refusing to follow the terms of Spain&#8217;s 1977 amnesty law preventing investigations into Franco-era crimes. \u00a0Garzon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}