Del Río y Moreno de Leija

DEL RÍO Y MORENO DE LEIJA is specialized in criminal law consultancy and litigation. Our main offices are located in México City and we retain the services of several corresponding attorneys in the most important cities in Mexico. The firm consists of attorneys with several years of professional experience in criminal law matters, both in private and public practice.

We provide a personalized and high quality service. Our main commitment is to work in close communication with our customers in order to provide certainty and confidence when defending their interests.

We have been an active part in the preparation of several criminal and human rights law initiatives and legal frameworks, both for the State and Federal Government. Additionally, we have assisted in the elaboration of research protocols for several attorney general’s offices and prosecutors’ offices in the country.

Investigative Stage

We participate as legal counsel for victims and defendants at the investigative stage, or preliminary inquiry in our previous criminal procedural system, both in ordinary and federal courts, appearing before prosecutors’ offices for both Mexico City and the States, as well as before the Federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and any courts whenever there is a judicial investigation involved.

Our services include counseling for the preparation of criminal complaints, their filing before the corresponding prosecutorial instances and the prompt follow-up through the full integration of investigative records. As defense attorneys we take all necessary actions with the purpose of crediting innocence and protect the interests of those that face a criminal charge.

We also take a part in the design and implementation of alternative means of resolution for legal controversies, such as mediation, settlements and any other available mean within the legal framework of the restorative justice system.

Trial Stage

We defend the freedom of our clients before ordinary and federal courts in any part of the country, throughout the several stages of criminal proceedings, both in trial and appeal courts.

In the same way, we represent the interests of crime victims and we act as legal counsel and assisting parties of the prosecutors with the purpose of obtaining damage reparations and an integral defense of the corresponding interests.

Amparo proceedings

Amparo proceedings are sometimes the best legal tool for protecting the freedom of individuals against authority abuse, seeking the suspension of legal actions and the corresponding protection against them. We specialize in these proceedings and promote amparo proceedings against authority actions that might infringe upon constitutional or statutory guaranties shown in international treaties in all criminal law proceedings, whether they originate from judicial authorities or prosecutors.

Human rights

Our firm is a staunch defender of the human rights of our clients, whether they are the victims of a crime or the accused part in a proceeding. These defense activities are deployed both at a national and international levels, appearing before the existing human rights commissions in our country and international bodies of the Inter-American and Universal Human Rights System.

Extraditions

We have the required experience and know-how for tending extradition proceedings, whether in cases in which Mexico requests delivery of an individual from abroad or vice versa. Our intervention can take the shape of defending the individual whose extradition is requested or assisting the authority with the purpose of obtaining the delivery of an accused party.

Injunctive relief

The firm is fully able to promote the imposition of all personal or other property protective and injunctive relief measures, supporting the interests of the client, as well as defending in a prompt manner against any act that might restrict the freedom or general legal rights of the party throughout the criminal process, as ruled by the investigative authority or any judge, so as to adequately protect the rights of the client.

Incarceration and sanction execution

We assist those who have been deprived of their freedom, whether in a provisional manner in preventive prison or subject to the execution of a ruling, at all penitentiary institutions in the country, with the purpose of improving their internment conditions, promote or avoid their transfer to another center according to their interests, or seeking any benefit that might allow for an early release.

Auditing and consulting activities

Criminal law is not always related to litigation activities. We increasingly receive preventive consultations and specific cases that are not yet subject to a criminal investigative or complaint stage, wherein we must identify possible criminal law contingencies in which our clients might incur – or a third party might incur against them, both related to individuals and companies as well as State and Federal government entities.