PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Keywords:
plea agreement, prosecutor’s actions, case lawAbstract
Changes in the sphere of Serbian criminal procedure legislation in the previous years have led to a large number of new legal solutions. One of the major innovations was the introduction of the plea agreement. This institute has been introduced into our criminal procedure law by the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code in 2009, and with the adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code from 2011, it received the legal form in which it is still applied today.
The plea agreement has been a topic of interest of the professional public since the very indication of its introduction into our criminal procedure legislation, given that it represents an institute which originates from the Anglo-Saxon law and as such is not inherent to a continental legal system such as ours. Bearing in mind its growing presence, as well as the significant period that has passed since its introduction into our legislation, we consider it necessary to point out some practical aspects of this institute. Therefore, this paper will, on the one hand, present the prosecution’s aspect of this institute through the Obligatory Instruction of the Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office No. O 5/2013 of 12/26/2013 in relation with the conclusion of plea agreements, which helps to achieve the legality, effectiveness and uniformity of the actions of the prosecutors’ offices in its implementation, as well as through certain opinions of the Working Group of the Appellate Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad, formed in order to monitor the implementation of the CPC. On the other hand, the paper will present and analyse the answers of the Criminal Department of the Appellate Court in Novi Sad and the Criminal Department of the Supreme Court of Cassation in connection with some of the controversial legal issues arising from the application of the plea agreement.
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