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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...

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