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Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare principle
Machovský, Vojtěch ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Pelc, Vladimír (referee)
Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare principle Abstract This thesis describes the principle of nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare in criminal law. One of the guiding principles of the criminal process in a modern democratic state, which is closely related to the right to a fair trial and one of the pillars on which the defense in criminal proceedings is built. This thesis focuses on historical development of this principle in our country and abroad, how the contemporary view of this principle in criminal proceedings gradually changed, both within continental law and anglo-american common law. Furthermore, the thesis describes the use of the principle of nemo tenetur in the current criminal process in Czech law and in the world, with a focus on guilty plea and plea deals. The first chapter contains the historical development of the principle in the continental system of law and in anglo-american common law, with the introduction of several important cases from the United States of America and their legal regulation, which in its essence was a prototype of the current concept of this principle. The second chapter contains an overwiev of how the principle is implemented in individual national and international legal systems. When part of this chapter is particularly devoted to the decisions made by the European Court of...
Confession and its impact on the criminal proceedings
Říhová, Eliška ; Galovcová, Ingrid (advisor) ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (referee)
1 Confession and its impact on the criminal proceedings Abstract The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive view of the issue of confession, to characterize this legal concept and describe its importance in matters of substantive and procedural criminal law. For this purpose, the author synthesized the available legal, doctrinal, judicial and other relevant information with her own opinions and considerations de lege ferenda. The content of the thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter contains a historical introduction covering the development of confession from the 14th century to the political trials of the 1970s. The second chapter characterizes confession in terms of content and form, focusing on particular requirements for confession and various situations in which it can be made. It also focuses on the legal concept of declaration of guilt, its differences from confession and the mutual relation between the two aforementioned in the light of the recent amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code. The third chapter deals with confession as the evidence and its significance even in case it is revoked or obtained in an inadmissible manner. The fourth chapter deals in more detail with forced confessions, methods of physical and mental pressure on the defendant and presents the results...

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