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Agreement Upon Guilt and Punishment as a Tool for Safeguarding Rights of the Accused
Podliska, Vojtěch ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
The vast majority of all criminal cases is dealt by so-called diversions of criminal proceedings as the alternative way of dealing with criminal cases. The diploma thesis deals with an agreement on guilt and punishment, which can be considered as this type of special criminal proceedings. Although plea bargaining (agreement on guilt and punishment) is quite a new topic to the Czech legal system, it is often discussed among scholars. In the thesis, I will describe plea bargaining concerning its impact on the rights of the accused. The thesis is divided into 10 chapters, including an introduction and a conclusion. In the beginning (chapters 1 and 2), I will focus on the description of diversions of criminal proceedings as well as plea bargaining. In the chapter 3, I will describe the legal regulation of plea bargaining under the Czech Code of Criminal Procedure. Then, I will focus on the specific areas of plea bargaining having the greatest impact on the rights of the accused, especially the role of the court of law in plea bargaining, its application within the framework of cases with multiple accused and securing of free will of the accused in entering into plea agreement (chapters 4-9). The final part contains legislative proposals de lege ferenda and conclusion (chapters 9 and 10). The outcome of...
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Agreement on guilt and punishment
Koblasová, Jana ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
Agreement on guilt and punishment Abstract The subject of the work is the institute of an agreement on guilt and punishment as a special way of handling criminal cases. The essence of an agreement on guilt and punishment is an agreement between the public prosecutor and the accused, in which the accused confesses to committing the act for which he is being prosecuted, in exchange for imposing a lesser punishment than that which would threaten him in standard criminal proceedings. It is a form of diversion in criminal proceedings, which is intended to speed up and simplify criminal proceedings. The agreement on guilt and punishment is enshrined in the Czech legal system for a relatively short period of time. It was introduced in 2012. As the guilt and punishment agreement did not materialize in practice in the following years, certain changes had to be made. These occurred in 2020 when, for example, an agreement on guilt and punishment was made possible for particularly serious crimes. The work is structured into six chapters. The first chapter deals with the question of whether it is possible to classify the agreement on guilt and punishment among the diversions in criminal proceedings. To answer this question, it was necessary to clarify the very concept of diversion. The work also briefly deals with the...
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Consensual Ways of Processing Criminal Cases
Tesnerová, Tereza ; Mulák, Jiří (advisor) ; Vokoun, Rudolf (referee)
The topic of this thesis is consensual ways of processing criminal cases. In the introduction, the basic models of criminal justice are analyzed, specifically adversarial procedure coming from the Anglo-American legal culture and inquisitorial procedure by origin from the continental legal system. The text deals with their historical development, basic characteristics and distinguishing features. The essence of the chapter is the influence of the interweaving of elements of these systems on the basic principles of continental criminal procedure with an accent on the recent amendment of the Criminal Code No. 333/2020 Coll. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the agreement on guilt and punishment, guilty plea, undisputed facts and marginally also the criminal warrant. These are consensual ways of processing criminal cases that cannot be classified as a subset of diversions. This is mainly due to their condemning meritorious essence and purpose, which is primarily an effort to rationalize criminal justice, i.e. to speed it up and make it more efficient. The third part deals with diversions in the narrower sense, or traditional diversions, which are conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution, conditional delaying of submission of a proposal for punishment, approval of settlement and...
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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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Agreement on guilt and punishment
Bolek, Tobiáš ; Říha, Jiří (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
The subject of this master's dissertation is agreement on guilt and punishment, which was incorporated into the Czech legal system in 2012. It is one of the juridical institutes that intends to achieve faster and more effective criminal proceeding. The agreement on guilt and punishment is inspired by a similar juridical institute of plea bargain originating from the Anglo-American legal system. The essence of agreement on guilt and punishment is the conclusion of an agreement between the prosecutor and the accused, whereby the prosecutor may offer a lighter sentence to the accused in exchange for a declaration by the accused that he has committed the act for which he is being prosecuted. This is an alternative form of proceeding, as the accused can avoid the standard form of criminal proceeding altogether by entering into this agreement. In the first chapter, I discuss the history of the legislative process, as the institute of agreement on guilt and punishment in the Czech Republic has undergone a rather complicated process. I also deal in detail with older legislative attempts, as many academic works on the same or similar topics do not pay much attention to older proposals. In the second chapter, I analytically describe and comment on the current legal regulation of agreement on guilt and...
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Diversions in criminal proceedings with special focus on agreement on guilt and punishment
Chudobová, Anna ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
133 Diversions in criminal proceedings with special focus on agreement on guilt and punishment Abstract The subject of the submitted rigorous thesis is diversions in criminal proceedings, with a special focus on the institution of the agreement on guilt and punishment. In general terms, it can be said that these procedural alternatives to the classical course of proceedings currently represent a very actual and dynamically developing issue, which, even though it often arouses controversy, is at the same time a means, through which the domestic criminal procedure is being modernised. Diversions do not only serve as a means of rationalisation of criminal proceedings, but also reflect the principles and ideas of restorative justice, which is increasingly mentioned as a direction in which the Czech criminal policy could develop in the future. The aim of the thesis is to provide a comprehensive view of these alternative ways of conducting criminal proceedings, with a detailed focus on the institution of the agreement on guilt and punishment, including a critical evaluation of it, a presentation of problematic aspects in theory and practice, and a proposal of possible changes de lege ferenda. The first part of the thesis focuses on the introduction of the concept of restorative justice, i.e. its development,...
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Collaborator of justice
Jech, Kryštof ; Mulák, Jiří (advisor) ; Richter, Martin (referee)
Collaborator of justice ABSTRACT The diploma thesis deals with the topic of the collaborator of justice with a closer focus on the Czech legislation. However, the author's aim is to present a critical picture of this legal institute in all its complexity. The beginning of the thesis is therefore devoted to the historical development of the given concept both globally and subsequently also within the Czech Republic. At the same time, the author attempts to define the relationship between "crown witness" and "accomplice witness" ("collaborator of justice") as these are closely related terms. A brief comparison of the most relevant foreign legislations of both types of legal culture is also included. Furthermore, the thesis superficially touches the criminological aspects of organized crime and the characteristics of its members. It summarizes the capture of the mentioned issue in the Czech legal system and describes the role of the collaborator of justice in the fight against such threat as well as in comparison with other legal means and institutes. The centre of interest then lies in the presentation of the most detailed interpretation of the existing legislation in force both from the point of view of procedural and substantive criminal law. In addition, the author answers predetermined questions aimed at...
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Plea bargain
Bicek, Rudolf ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee) ; Fryšták, Marek (referee)
The topic of this dissertation is the originally Anglo-Saxon criminal process concept of plea bargaining, which has become a phenomenon within a number of civil law countries in recent decades. This alternative method of resolving criminal cases consists simply in the pos- sibility of an agreement being reached between the prosecutor and the accused, provided that the accused, under certain conditions, admits to having committed the offence and agrees with the proposed punishment. A look at the foreign as well as domestic legal literature reveals that plea bargaining is controversial to say the least. Proponents argue that it accelerates and simplifies criminal pro- ceedings, while opponents point to its flagrant inconsistency with the fundamental principles of continental criminal proceedings. The author of this dissertation examines agreements in criminal proceedings in gen- eral, focusing on their origin, historical development and various forms around the world. A special part of this dissertation is devoted to plea bargaining regulations in all 27 European countries where the concept has been introduced, including the Czech Republic, where it was introduced by Amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code No. 193/2012 Coll., effective from 1 September 2012. In addition, plea bargaining is described...
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Agreement on guilt and punishment
Skolil, Ondřej ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (advisor) ; Vokoun, Rudolf (referee)
Agreement on guilt and punishment - Abstract The topic of this rigorous thesis is an institute of an agreement on guilt and punishment, which is one of the diversions in criminal proceedings that is regulated by our criminal law. Given that the institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment is conceptually subordinated to just mentioned concept of diversions in criminal proceedings, this thesis does not deal only with the institute of agreement on guilt and punishment, but also with all other diversions in criminal proceedings, which are regulated by our criminal law. The main usage goal of the institute of an agreement on guilt and punishment is to simplify and speed up the entire criminal proceedings, when thanks to a conclusion of an agreement on guilt and punishment, the entire criminal proceedings can come to a successful conclusion relatively quickly. This thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter deals with the concept of diversion in criminal proceedings, the principle of so-called restorative justice, as well as with all the individual diversions in criminal proceedings (with the exception of the institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment). Part of this chapter are also statistics, thanks to which the reader of this thesis can find out to what extent the diversion is used...
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Plea bargain: comparison of Czech and German regulation
Sakařová, Michaela ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
This master's thesis deals with the institute of agreement process that originates in anglo-american plea bargain, which has been implemented in many criminal proceedings within the countries of continental Europe. Civil law based countries are using agreements in different forms during their criminal proceedings as an alternative to common trials. Its purpose is to make them faster and more simple. Every agreement is different from each other, but one common element is that accused person pleads guilty of crimes he/she is being prosecuted for and also that the authorities involved in given criminal proceeding are willing to make concession in punishment of the prosecuted. Even though this type of solution to overburdened authorities active in criminal proceedings seems to be quite positive, there are some critics that find this method in conflict with some basic principals of continental criminal proceeding. This thesis introduces the agreement process in general view, briefly examines its origins and focuses mainly on its legislation in the Czech Republic and Germany. Legislative force in the Czech Republic implemented the agreement on guilt and punishment into criminal proceedings by an amendment of Criminal Procedure Code No. 193/2012 Sb. as a completely new diversion, respectively as special...
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