No more military jurisdiction over homicides

The Supreme Court of Mexico has handed down a decision holding that military courts have no jurisdiction over homicides. The case arose from the death of a soldier as a result of exhaustion following a 5K footrace; the accused was an Army doctor. El Diario has details here. Excerpt (Google Translate):

"The legal nature of the homicide prevents a strict connection with military discipline from being able to exist, given that the legal asset that is intended to protect is life, as one of the most precious assets for the human being and for society, without that bears any relation to the legal assets of the military order or with some type of affectation to them", indicates the thesis published on August 7.

This criterion is added to others dictated by the Court since the past decade that have been increasingly reducing the jurisdiction of the Supreme Military Court (STM) and its courts, to leave it only in offenses that affect military discipline, and excluding any matter in whichever a civilian is involved.