辩诉交易的历史溯源及现实分析

Plea Bargain:History and Present

普通法的刑事司法经历了司法不鼓励自白、辩诉交易在实践中广泛开展并最终获得合法性地位的历史过程。当事人主义模糊了民事诉讼与刑事诉讼的界限,辩诉交易的盛行与对抗制诉讼的低效率、不可预测性等因素密切相关。美国的辩诉交易因其导致司法腐败而备受争议。在我国,由于并不存在实行这一制度的内在机制和压力,辩诉交易应当缓行。

The criminal justice of the common law followed a course of history from discouraging the suspects confessing to widely practicing the plea bargaining which finally legalized. The radical party procedure made indistinct the boundary between the civil procedure and criminal procedure, while the plea bargaining prevails as a result of the low efficiency and uncertainty of the adversarial proceedings and other factors. The plea bargaining in the U. S. A. has been disputed because it brought about judicial corruption. Whereas interior mechanism and pressure does not exit in China, the plea bargaining system should not be put into practice immediately.