AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR AND THE DEFENDANT ABOUT PLEA BARGAINING

Authors

  • Veljko M. Delibašić Адвокат Београд

Keywords:

agreement, public prosecutor, defendant, defender, confessing the guilt, innocently convicted

Abstract

The paper analyzes one of the three agreements between public prosecutor and defendant, agreement about confessing a criminal act. After the introduction, where two criminal proceeding systems are pointed out and the fact that it came to taking over some institutes from one to another, and vice versa, agreement about confessing a criminal act is analyzed. Following the statements about origin of this institute, it is warned about the danger that its application causes innocent persons confess criminal acts they did not commit. After that, the benefit that defendant and defender might have out of this agreement is explained. Special attention is given to the process of concluding the agreement, initiative for concluding the agreement, the negotiation procedure itself and the defender's role in the procedure. Mandatory and optional elements of the agreement are stated, and some of their specificities are pointed out. Besides that, some of the decisions that could be made based on the agreement and limited possibility to file a complaint against those decisions, are stated. In the part related to the legal effect of the agreement about confessing a criminal act, the attention is drawn to the court practice attitudes which are unacceptable and must be changed, and then conclusions are made where the necessity of amending the provisions of this institute.

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Published

2017-03-31

How to Cite

M. Delibašić, V. . (2017). AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR AND THE DEFENDANT ABOUT PLEA BARGAINING. KULTURA POLISA, 14(32), 361–373. Retrieved from https://kpolisa.com/index.php/kp/article/view/685

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