司法实践中能否认定自首的几种情形

Several situations to identify surrender in the judicial practice

在新修订的刑法修正案(八)中对自首条文新增加一款规定,将如实供述(习惯上称之为"坦白",笔者在下文中也暂且将刑法修正案(八)新增的67条3款简称为"坦白")可以从轻处罚的酌定量刑情节上升为法定从轻情节,足见我国刑事立法对自首或者如实供述的犯罪嫌疑人所秉持的是宽缓的态度。然而对于该条款的准确适用,则是检察机关特别是基层检察机关在办案过程中亟需解决的问题,本文从司法实践的角度对几种能否认定自首的情形进行逐一的分析和探讨,以期对当前和今后的司法实践起到一定的促进作用。

In the newly revised Criminal Code Amendment（Ⅷ）,there is a new provision about surrender that the true confession（used to be called＂confession＂, the author also shorted paragraph 3 of article 67 in the Criminal Code Amendment（Ⅷ） as＂confession＂in the following） is risen from discretionary extenuating sentencing to statutory extenuating circumstances,which shows China＇s criminal legislation has a wide and gentle attitude to the surrender or true confession of the criminal suspects. However,the accurate application of the provision is the problem needed to solve by the prosecution,especially the grassroots in the process of handling cases.This article,from the perspective of judicial practice,analyzed and discussed the several situations to identify surrender one by one with a view to play a role in promoting the current and future judicial practice.