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Courts Reassign Drug Cases to First Instance
The Court of Cassation and Appeals issued rulings to reinstate drug cases that relied on the pharmaceutical board's schedules back to the Court of First Instance, after it was revealed that the decisions by the Head of the Drug Authority were issued without legal authority and are considered invalid retroactively. This measure followed the Supreme Constitutional Court's ruling in February 2026, which declared those schedules null and void due to their issuance by an unauthorized body, leading to the nullification of the judgments issued based on them. As a result, the defendants are to be retried according to the original rules and provisions prior to the issuance of those unlawful decisions, with lighter penalties applied. For example, in a drug possession case, a sentence of 15 years in prison was issued instead of life imprisonment. The courts are committed to automatically implementing this annulment, reaffirming that judgments based on unlawful decisions are considered as if they never existed and are to revert to the previous legal state.
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