Criminal Procedure Law - Master Teacher's Lecture Notes for Judicial Examination (Legal Edition) (Revised Edition) (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: Liu Mei
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: As an important fundamental legal discipline, Criminal Procedure Law has always held a significant position in the annual lawyer qualification exams. After the "three exams in one," in the judicial exam, Criminal Procedure Law is even more crucial, with its score value increasing from 35–40 points in the lawyer exam to 60–70 points in the judicial exam. Therefore, along with Criminal Law, Civil Law, and Civil Procedure Law, Criminal Procedure Law is referred to by candidates as one of the "major laws" of the judicial exam. So, how can one excel in Criminal Procedure Law?
From the content of Criminal Procedure Law exam questions, the key knowledge points covered in recent judicial exams have remained largely the same. They mainly include:
- The basic meaning of the concept of procedural justice
- Exceptions to public trials
- Statutory circumstances that do not require criminal prosecution and their handling
- Litigants (legal representatives, defenders, witnesses, appraisers, complainants)
- Special jurisdiction
- The system of recusal
- Evidence (types of evidence, classification of evidence, division of burden of proof, exclusion of illegal evidence, questioning of witnesses)
- Coercive measures (conditions for converting from release on bail to arrest, differences between criminal detention and other detentions)
- Investigation (interrogation, appraisal, withdrawal of cases, the involvement of lawyers)
- Non-prosecution
- Simplified procedures
- Civil lawsuits in criminal cases (legal basis for civil lawsuits in criminal cases, acceptance of civil lawsuits in criminal cases)
- Trials of private prosecution cases (handling of the complainant's absence, counterclaims during the process of private prosecution)
- First-instance procedures of public prosecution cases (trial bodies, conditions for converting simplified procedures to ordinary procedures, the defendant's guilty plea, withdrawal of charges)
- Appeals (subjects, right of appeal, appeal period)
- Death penalty review procedures (review of suspended death sentences, changes)
- Supervisory trial procedures (trial of retrial cases)
- Execution (executing authorities, application of conditional release outside prison)
- Foreign-related procedures (confirmation of foreign nationality, criminal judicial assistance)
From the perspective of the difficulty of Criminal Procedure Law exam questions, the difficulty level of Criminal Procedure Law questions in recent judicial exams has remained relatively stable.