Crime of theft with intimidation and unlawful detention

Commentary on the Tribunal Supremo of 11 october 2011

Abstract

When it comes to establishing the juridical and criminal offenses of robbery and unlawful detention, the doctrine of this Court applies the contest of procedure or of laws only in those suppositions of minimal temporary duration, in which the detention, confinement or paralyzation of the passive subject takes place during the central episode of the theft… In other cases, where neither the action of robbery with violence and intimidation, or unlawful detainer action, covering themselves completely unfair content of the facts, not we will face a competition of standards, but to a competition of different offenses.