¿EXISTE LA PRUEBA ILÍCITA, LÍCITAMENTE OBTENIDA, EN EL PROCESO PENAL CHILENO?

In German criminal procedural law, it is possible to forbid the judge to assess a certain piece of evidence regardless of whether it has been legally obtained. This institution is called in German unselbstständiges Beweisverbot. The main justification for such exclusionary rule is constitutional: the assessment of a piece of evidence could lead to a violation of the fundamental rights of the individual. This paper analyzes the independent prohibition to use evidence in German scholarship and case law in order to ask whether its constituent elements are ascertainable in Chilean criminal procedural law and whether the solution proposed at the constitutional level in German law represents a plausible alternative in Chilean constitutional law.