Criminal Procedure Law (Italy)
The criminal procedural law of Italy determines the legal bases on which the criminal process is based.
Legal sources
The central codice of Italian criminal procedural law is the codice di procedura penale from 1988. Compared to the authoritarian predecessor by Alfredo Rocco from 1930, the new Italian code of criminal procedure is characterized by a departure from the French inquisition process. This can be seen most clearly in the abolition of the examining magistrate modeled on the French juge d'instruction (giudice istruttore). The adversarial indictment procedure, borrowed from common law , has taken its place . Accordingly, the role of the judge is withdrawn when the witness is heard in the main hearing; this is done in the style of the Anglo-American cross-examination by the public prosecutor and defense attorney.
literature
- Manfred Maiwald : Introduction to Italian criminal law and criminal procedure law . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred Maiwald : Introduction to Italian criminal law and criminal procedure law . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, § 6 General Criminal Doctrine.
