In What Another Case Does the Non-Applied the Principle Non Reformatio in Peius?

Abstract

The principle non reformatio in peius, also known as the prohibition of the reform in worse or of pejorative reform, it is constituted in a guarantee of the procedural part that appeals of a decision in first instance. Thus, we have that principle: “(...)has its origin basically in the criminal procedure system, and that implies, that the legal consequence of a person (for any of the penalties of such system) can not be increased if the convicted person asks for the revision of it”.