Soudce vs Porota na podkladu knihy G. Perraulta – Červený pulovr
Judge vs Jury based on the G. Perrault’s novel Red pullover
Author(s): Zdeněk KopečnýSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Anglo-Saxon legal system; Red pullover; French Justice; Gilles Perrault; continental legal system; a lay element; the jury; associate; reform of criminal justice; judge; death penalty; prosecution
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with comparison of objectivity of criminal judge courts and juries courts based on the novel Red Pullover written by French writer and lawyer Gilles Perrault. He described in details the criminal procedure with Christian Ranucci – one of the last death penalty sentenced person in France. He was executed altought there wasn’t guilty proved beyond the reasonable doubt. This misscarriage of justice took place because of susceptiveness of jury by public meaning and another circumstances. The article deals also with the situations in Czech criminal judiciary and problems with lay judges. Concretely with comparison these lay judges with jury, positives and negatives of both and possibilities which can be used by Czech judiciary reform which seems to be unavoidable.
Journal: Olomoucké debaty mladých právníků - Sborník příspěvků
- Issue Year: 1/2011
- Issue No: Coll.
- Page Range: 195-199
- Page Count: 5
- Language: Czech