Ley 6 del 1984

(P. del S. 1122)

LeY Para enmendar la Regla 165 de Procedimiento Criminal de 1963, según enmendada, para proveer la cancelación de fianza y que se ordene el encarcelamiento del acusado que no cualifica para sentencia suspendida, hasta tanto se dicte la sentencia.

EXPOSICION DE MOTIVOS

Para evitar la práctica creciente de que un acusado, a quien se encuentre culpable por un delito que no apareje el beneficio de sentencia suspendida, evada la jurisdicción del tribunal luego de mediar fallo condenatorio pero antes del acto de lectura de sentencia, es necesario que se cancele la fianza y se ordene su encarcelamiento hasta tanto se dicte sentencia.

Decrétase por la Asamblea Legislativa de Puerto Rico:

Sección 1.- Se enmienda la Regla 165 de las de Procedimiento Criminal de 1963, según enmendada, para que lea: "Regla 165.-FALLO Y SENTENCIA; COMPARECENCIA DEL ACUSADO

Cuando la presencia del acusado fuere necesaria, el tribunal podrá ordenarle a cualquier funcionario que tuviere bajo su custodia al acusado que lo traiga ante el tribunal a oír el fallo o la sentencia que deba pronunciar o imponerle. Si el acusado estuviere bajo fianza y no compareciere a oír el fallo o la sentencia, el tribunal, además de la confiscación de la fianza, podrá ordenar el arresto del acusado.

Si el fallo fuere condenatorio y el acusado se encontrare bajo fianza, el tribunal decretará inmediatamente la cancelación de la fianza y ordenará la encarcelación del acusado hasta que se dicte sentencia en aquellos casos que por disposición expresa de ley a éste no pueda suspendérsele ios efectos de la sentencia."

Sección 2.- Esta Ley empezará a regir inmediatamente después de su aprobación.

Departamento de Estado

CERBROOIceste del ciptactiol y execte del original aprebado y fir- mede por el Gebornedor del Estado Libro Asociado de Puerto Rico el Presidente de la Cámara dia 30 de many. de 1984

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COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO

OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES

CAPITOL BUILDING P.O. BOX 3986

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00904

February 28, 1985

Juan R. Melecio, Director of the Office of Legislative Services of the Legislature of Puerto Rico, hereby certifies to the Secretary of State that he has duly compared the English and Spanish texts of Act No. 6 (S.B. 1122) of the 4 th Session of the 9th Legislature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, entitled:

AN ACT to amend Rule 165 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure of 1963, as amended, to provide for the rescinding of bail and to direct that a defendant who does not qualify for a suspended sentence, be imprisoned until judgment is pronounced, and finds the same are complete, true and correct versions of each other.

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(No. 6)

(Approved March 30, 1984) AN ACT

To amend Rule 165 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure of 1963, as amended, to provide for the rescinding of bail and to direct that a defendant who does not qualify for a suspended sentence, be imprisoned until judgment is pronounced.

STATEMENT OF MOTIVES

To prevent the growing practice that a defendant who is found guilty of an offense which does not compel the benefit of a suspended sentence, evades the jurisdiction of the court after his conviction, but before judgment is pronounced, it is necessary to rescind his bail and to direct that he be imprisoned until judgment is pronounced.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF PUERTO RICO:

Section 1.- Rule 165 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure of 1963, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Rule 165.- JUDGMENT AND SENTENCE; PRESENCE OF DEFENDANT

When the presence of the defendant is necessary, the

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Court may direct any officer in whose custody he is, to bring him before the Court to hear the judgment or sentence which is to be pronounced or imposed on him. If the defendant is out on bail and does not appear for judgment or sentencing, the Court, in addition to forfeiting bail, may direct that the defendant be arrested. If the defendant is convicted and is out on bail, the Court shall immediately decree that bail be rescinded, and shall direct that the defendant be imprisoned until judgment is pronounced in those cases that by express provision of law the effects of his sentence cannot be suspended."

Section 2.- This Act shall take effect immediately after its approval.