El efecto de la sentencia condenatoria del procedimiento abreviado en el juicio indemnizatorio por responsabilidad civil ex delicto

Abstract

The criminal conviction pronounced in an plea bargaining is not a suitable way to discover the truth in the process, and therefore not applicable provision No 178 of the Chilean Code of Civil Procedure, which allows to enforce the criminal conviction in the civil compensation trial. The conviction of the plea bargaining is a consensual truth, not adversarial, nor the result of a court judgment. However, the admission of the facts in the plea bargaining, by the accused, may be regarded as an extrajudicial confession in civil proceedings, under certain circumstances.