The 'face to face' meeting in criminal proceedings. Chronicle of a pre-trial detention foretold

The criminal proceedings which take place in La Plata, Buenos Aires province, are carried out -with exceptions- without holding the hearings that the law mandates in order to provide opportunities for prosecutors and judges to meet face to face with the people that they will charge/judge later in court. Hence, since the beginnings of the investigations until the moment of the trial (oral or written one - 'shorten' -), judicial authorities make important decisions such as allowing an accused person to remain free until trial or, on the contrary, imposing pre-trial detention, without even a minimum of immediacy with those who will bear their serious decisions. Nevertheless, that despersonalizating inertia is exceptionally interrupted, as it happened in Cristian' s case, when a young man provisionally detained from La Plata' s city, managed to meet face to face with the judges and prosecutors of his case, and thanks to that, he regained his freedom. This paper narrates Cristian' s case, and it aims to be a reflection on the influence that, in criminal proceedings, has o can have the direct contact between prosecutors/judges and the people that are being acussed or judged.