Abstract

This is a study, through review, of some aspects of criminal procedure law and Chilean constitutional law, analyzing the right to appeal for criminal annulment, its origin; regulatory framework; configuration and problems associated to it. At the same time, it analyzes, through the revision, some judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, part of the national and Latin-American doctrine, the role of Conventionality Control that states parties must apply, trying to help to determine how our country follows, or should follow, the guidelines proposed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the matter collected in different international instruments, in order to verify whether or not the current configuration of our criminal nullity appeal complies with the international standard of guaranteeing the full and effective enjoyment of the right to appeal.