内容摘要:简易程序作为一种与普通程序并存的诉讼程序,它是为了谋求公正与效率的平衡而产生的,我国于1996年的刑事诉讼法中首次设立了简易程序的一审庭审制度,经过十几年的实践,它已被普遍认可。然而,随着社会经济的发展,时代的进步,新形势的出现,目前的刑事简易程序已经不能满足公正与效率的真正平衡,暴露出许多问题,比如说,简易程序的适用范围规定的不清楚导致其难以适用、被告人的权利难以保障、庭审过程的不合理等等,这些问题的出现导致了积案的发生,损害了原被告方的权利,浪费了我国有限的司法资源。所以,笔者在本文中主要针对目前简易程序存在的问题和以国际化发展的大趋势为背景,提出一些具有针对性和发展方向的改革措施,比如,建议扩大简易程序的量刑标准、加强被告人的权利保障、确立轻罪案件书面审程序、建立简易程序的多元化适用等以期对我国刑事简易程序的完善有所裨益。
关键词: 简易程序、公正与效率、改革与完善
On the reform of criminal summary procedure
Abstract
Summary procedure as a co-exist with the ordinary procedures of the litigation procedure, it is to seek justice and efficiency of the balance. China''s Criminal Procedure Law in 1996, the first time established a summary procedure of trial of the first-instance procedure of court trial. After decades of practice, it has been generally recognized. However, with the social and economic development, the progress of the times, the emergence of the new situation, the criminal summary procedure isn’t satisfied the balance of justice and efficiency presently, and many problems have exposed. For example, summary procedure’s application scope is not clear and difficult to apply, the right of the accused is difficult to protect, procedure of court trial is unreasonable and so on. These issues'' appearance has caused the long-pending case occurrence, has harmed the original defense right, has wasted our country limited judicature resources. Therefore, the author described a number of reform programs in this article. It is mainly directed against the existing problems and to the international trend of development of the background, to bring up some targeted and direction of reform measures. Such as to suggest expands the simple procedure the discretion of punishment standard, to strengthen the rights of the accused, to establish petty case written to examine the procedure, to build up simple procedure multiplication to be suitable. All of these has a benefit by the time to our country criminal activity simple procedure''s consummation.
Keyword:summary procedure、justice and efficiency、reform and improvement
引 言
简易程序是指基层人民法院审理某些简单轻微刑事案件时所适用的相对简单的审理程序。简易程序不是普通程序的附庸,而是与普通程序并存的一种独立的诉讼程序。它是在诉讼程序进行过程中为谋求公正与效益的平衡而产生的,刑事简易程序的主要目的就在于对正义与效益这两大程序价值目标加以适当的协调以避免或者减缓两者的冲突和矛盾。