Electronic documentary evidence in criminal traffic processes in Ecuador (Review)

Abstract

The emergence of technology has revolutionized legal systems and traditional ways in which evidence and means of proof have always been conceived. Specifically, in the case of traffic criminal proceedings, today, it is very common to have to resort to electronic or digital means as means of evidence to be able to act from each of the procedural roles. This imposes the need to propose as a general objective: Determine how the absence of legal norms that regulate within the Ecuadorian criminal process the practice and assessment of digital or electronic evidence, violate the principle of legality. Then, under a qualitative methodological approach and with scientific methods of the same nature, such as exegetical, inductive and analytical-synthetic, scientific results are obtained that, without a doubt, the deficient legal regulation in some cases and totally absent in others , for traffic criminal proceedings, of rules that provide everything related to electronic or digital evidence, is violating the principle of legality and affecting both the judicial rulings in these cases and the rights of the people involved. Your solution?: A prompt legislative reform already argued, the bases of this need in this scientific article.