What are the legal consequences of these deaths?

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The former president of Caja Madrid, Miguel Blesa, sentenced to six years in prison for the Black Card case, died yesterday on 19/07/2017. One of the things we can ask ourselves is what happens with the trials he had pending? As well as other suspects (accused) who have died either before the trial was held, in the investigation phase or before an appeal they had filed was resolved. A clear example can be found in the Gürtel case, 7 of those investigated for this corruption plot have died.

The extinction of criminal liability
The causes of extinction of criminal liability are those specific circumstances that occur student contact number list after the offence has been committed and nullify the criminal action or the execution of the sentence. These circumstances mean that criminal liability has disappeared.

Article 115 of the Criminal Procedure Act regulates the causes of extinction of criminal action, including the death of the guilty party, although civil action against his heirs remains, which can only be exercised through civil proceedings.

Article 130 of the Criminal Code refers to the extinction of criminal liability, one of which is the death of the offender. This derives from the rule of personality of penalties, that is, the penalty cannot be transmitted to the heirs , unlike what happens with civil liability, which is not extinguished. It is transmitted to the heirs, if they accept the inheritance.