The ‘only yes is yes’ law (modified a few days ago) continues to have legal effects. According to the latest data from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the star rule that United Podemos brought to the Council of Ministers has led to the reduction of the sentence for 1,025 sexual offenders and has led to the release of another 105. This calculation is counted from October 7, 2022, the date on which the law entered into force.
The new figure has been known just a week after the Senate gave the green light to the reform of the law promoted by the PSOE last February, when the trickle of reductions in sentences was incessant and already numbered in the hundreds. A reform that caused a breach of trust with its government partners, United We Can. The Socialists carried out the reform thanks to the votes of the PPamong others, which caused what has been the biggest crisis that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has suffered.
Despite the modification, new reductions and releases continue to be made in those cases appealed and analyzed when the ‘only yes is yes’ law was in force. Regardless of the decisions that the courts continue to make, it is expected that the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court celebrate between June 6 and 7 a monographic plenary session to set criteria on the reviews carried out.
It will be the first time that the high court enters to analyze whether the lower judicial bodies they have applied well the Organic Law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom in its sentence revisions. The magistrates will carry out this study with the aim of not only unifying criteria, but also establishing doctrine, since it accumulates more than twenty appeals against sentence review orders.
