论强制医疗制度中鉴定人出庭作证义务

On the Testimony Obligation of Appraisers in a Compulsory Medical System

新修订的《刑事诉讼法》设立了依法不负刑事责任的精神病人的强制医疗程序,并将最终决定权赋予了法院。在此过程中,法官判断被申请人是否符合强制医疗条件的关键证据是司法精神病鉴定意见,而鉴定人出庭接受质证则是确保鉴定意见客观、公正和准确的重要手段,针对目前鉴定人自愿出庭率极低的问题,应规定强制鉴定人出庭作证义务。

A compulsory medical procedure has been established for mental patients to he held criminally irresponsible,and courts have been endowed with the right of final decision in the new procedural law.In this procedure,key evidence upon which a judiciary judges whether the respondent meets requirements of compulsory medical treatment is a judicial asychiatry evaluation report.One essential way to guarantee the objectivity, fairness and accuracy of the evaluation report is the in-court-testimony of appraisers.In terms of a low percentage of the voluntary in-court-testimony, an enforced testimony obligation of appraisers must be stipulated.