About the normative and tendentiously binding nature of the rules of sound criticism in the weighing of judicial evidence

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate the normative and tendentiously binding nature of some rules of sound criticism within the judicial evidentiary phase. In this direction it clarifies what is the difference between the sound criticism and the rules of sound criticism, showing how the latter are not immune to the regulatory laws of the evidence in general. Difference between a strong concept and a weak one of formalization of rules of sound criticism in evidentiary matter to affirm the possibility and convenience of a weak formalization of the same. We present below the arguments that can be used to deactivate the ideas of the so-called abolitionists to conclude with an exposition, by way of illustration, of certain regulatory laws of the evidence that determine the content of the rules of sound criticism in a normative sense tendentially binding.