be preserved. For example, in the so called section 762. 6 procedimiento abreviado, CPC provides a separate prosecution of related crimes when there is only one accused person but several criminal accounts (objective connectedness). On the contrary, it will never be a case for a separate trial when a single criminal account is charged to more than one accused person (subjective connectedness). 5. Section 5 of the Jury Act should be interpreted in the same way, trying to avoid the judgment of a criminal case in different proceedings (because the matter at issue that has to be decided is a mixed criminal act that compromises two different courts. In other words, the crime committed is a single act that, technically, could be tried by two different courts: one crime is competent of the Jury court example, manslaughter- –for and the other crime is competent of the criminal court-for example rape-, when doing so could lead to breaking the contingency of the cause. 6. Trial may be held in relation to the present accused person, but it could be suspended for absent defendants, in the cases and in the manner provided in sections 786.1 and 842 CPC. Linked Proceedings Criteria (section 17). Section 17 CPC establishes five criteria in order to qualify linked proceedings. Such criteria can be grouped into three categories: 1. Subjective Link (crime committed by two or more defendants) a) Crimes committed simultaneously by two or more people brought together. That is, different kind of crimes committed by more than one person, but in a single criminal act, could be tried in a single proceeding. The criterion used by the legislator is the existence of a prior agreement between several people in order to commit the crime. The principle of linked proceeding in that case will apply not only if all defendants are liable to be tried by different criminal courts (for instance, one of them is but aforado, also if they are not). It should be noted that according to the Spanish Criminal Law
be preserved. For example, in the so called procedimiento abreviado, section 762. 6 CPC provides a separate prosecution of related crimes when there is only one accused person but several criminal accounts (objective connectedness). On the contrary, it will never be a case for a separate trial when a single criminal account is charged to more than one accused person (subjective connectedness). 5. Section 5 of the Jury Act should be interpreted in the same way, trying to avoid the judgment of a criminal case in different proceedings (because the matter at issue that has to be decided is a mixed criminal act that compromises two different courts. In other words, the crime committed is a single act that, technically, could be tried by two different courts: one crime is competent of the Jury court –for example, manslaughter- and the other crime is competent of the criminal court-for example rape-, when doing so could lead to breaking the contingency of the cause. 6. Trial may be held in relation to the present accused person, but it could be suspended for absent defendants, in the cases and in the manner provided in sections 786.1 and 842 CPC. Linked Proceedings Criteria (section 17). Section 17 CPC establishes five criteria in order to qualify linked proceedings. Such criteria can be grouped into three categories: 1. Subjective Link (crime committed by two or more defendants) a) Crimes committed simultaneously by two or more people brought together. That is, different kind of crimes committed by more than one person, but in a single criminal act, could be tried in a single proceeding. The criterion used by the legislator is the existence of a prior agreement between several people in order to commit the crime. The principle of linked proceeding in that case will apply not only if all defendants are liable to be tried by different criminal courts (for instance, one of them is aforado, but also if they are not). It should be noted that according to the Spanish Criminal Law