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In this paper we analyze what happened in the Colombian judiciary system in connection with a controversial provision: Article 199 of Law 1098/2006, described as an example of punitive populism and as an expansion of criminal law -because it hinders the implementation of a reward justice, according with a criminal accusatory system-, which are a consequence not only because of the society demands of security and satisfaction, but also the utter irrationality of the legislature to such standards and, unfortunately, also because of the inconsistency of judicial operators who are called to overcome the law and justice above such interests, especially when it comes to exercising constitutional review over them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historical study of the different procedural systems is a pending task in our legal field. Additionally, it is difficult to find academic texts that develop a global revision and a historical reconstruction of the essential characteristics of the main procedural criminal systems in our time, more precisely, of systems that would allow us to comprehend our existing system and its evolution. This paper's intention is to locate such characteristics and examine said evolution in the context of the new Accusatory System and its Criminal Procedure. In order to do so this study will verify which characteristics and institutions still remain, and which have been transformed or removed from the Colombian criminal procedural system. All this information has been compiled in order to undertake a historical evaluation of our systems of Criminal Procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]