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Consensual Elements in German Criminal Procedural Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Folker Bittmann

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The aim of German criminal procedural law is not to convict the accused at any cost. Even a guilty party can only be convicted if the criminal procedure is held in accordance with the law. If this is not possible, the German legal system accepts the risk of possibly acquitting a guilty party; it finds this more tolerable than the irregular conviction of the culprit. A criminal procedure seeks the truth. Only on the basis of a judicial conviction of the crime and its culprit may a sentence be imposed. This, though, can only be based on the so-called procedural truth. On the one hand, the past can never be reconstructed precisely; on the other hand, clarification can only be found through legal means and by following designated paths allowed by procedural law. Therefore, further investigation must cease if it is only possible to proceed by violating procedural law.

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German Law Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 1: Special issue - Plea Bargains in Germany , 01 February 2014 , pp. 15 - 42
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Copyright © 2014 by German Law Journal GbR 

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