The word fiscal presents more than one reference in our language.
On one hand, to everything belonging to or associated with the treasury, the public treasury, will be referred to generically as fiscal.
Meanwhile, the treasury is made up of a series of bodies that make up the public administration of a nation and that are especially in charge of managing and organizing economic funds and depositing them in the boxes of the nation in question. Also within the treasury are counted at tools available to the state to manage and collect taxes. The public treasury or treasury depends on the Ministry of EconomyAlthough of course, there may be variations depending on the political organization.
And on the other hand, to instances of justicethe prosecutor is that public official who in a judicial process has the responsibility and obligation to represent the state, thus being in charge of directing the corresponding criminal investigation and of the accusation in the courts. That is, the prosecutor is the accusing party in the process.
Meanwhile, the defense It is the opposite party to the prosecutor, since it is in charge of representing the interests of the accused by the prosecutor. In this sense, it is important to mention that the prosecutor is not a defense lawyer, he is a state lawyer, he represents him, the defendant, if he does not have one, he will be assigned ex officio.
When an illegal act occurs, it is up to the prosecutor to gather the pertinent evidence to later present it to the judge, who will decide the fate of the person or group that the prosecutor points out as responsible for the crime.
Each judicial organization has a large number of prosecutors who will exercise their function in the jurisdictional place to which they have been assigned, that is, a prosecutor who has not been designated in an area will not be able to hear the case due to a problem of competence, except Let an authority so decide.
It should be noted that the prosecutor is also often referred to as: agent of the public ministry, fiscal promoter, fiscal attorney and fiscal agent.
In order to access the position of prosecutor, it is a sine quanom condition to have studied and graduated from the law career. For the case is that the prosecutor is a lawyer.
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