Judicial Prevarication

The present work contains a study of the crime of prevarication of Judges and Arbitrators in law typified and punished in the Organic Integral Penal Code in force in Ecuador since August 10, 2014 and the changes made in the description of the prohibited conduct that before the issuance and validity of this new legislation was typified. This new typical description is analyzed in comparison with other legislations. To complete the whole normative structure that regulates the Substantive Law and Procedural Law, we have thought it convenient to analyze the evidentiary standard, the differences with the reasonable doubt and the in dubio pro reo and its differences with the Judge's behavior as a disciplinary infraction.