Epistemic and non-epistemic reasons for the admission of testimonial proof in the Peruvian Criminal Procedure

Abstract

This paper focuses on the analysis of the epistemic and non-epistemic reasons of the admission rules for testimonial proof in the 2004 Criminal Procedure Code. The first reasons address the recognition of the principle of relevance as the guiding criterion for admission of proof, which implies that all testimony that contributes to the clarification of the facts is incorporated. The second reasons, aimed at the protection of different values which are the basis for excluding relevant testimonies, will be evaluated to determine whether these exclusions are adequately justified. This research presents a proposal for the regulation of testimonial proof according to the epistemic purposes of the proof