建设合理的量刑衡平程序——论刑法第63条第二款的修改

Construction of Penalty-Equity Procedure——On Amendments of the Second Paragraph of Article 63 in the Criminal Law

由于我国现行刑法第63条第二款对"不具备法定情节但客观上需要减轻处罚"的决定权主体身份设置过高,对相应的程序设置亦不够重视,加上客观上需要通过该程序减轻处理的案件为数众多,因此,多年来在实践中造成了不少的问题,不符合我国宽严相济的刑事司法政策。然而《刑法修正案(八)》并未就该制度进行任何修改。因此,本文建议对现行的该报请核准程序进行修改,建设更为合理的量刑衡平程序——即复核权主体与提出复核权的主体二元化的新报请核准程序。

Due to the extremely high arrangement of the identity of decision-making organ which the current Criminal Law stipulates in the second paragraph, article 63, that ＂No legal circumstance available yet substantially asks for mitigation of punishmcnt＇, meanwhile current penalty law systems has no regard for correspondent procedure arrangements, and the mitigation procedure is widely required in legal practices. Hence, for years such institution has given rise to a great deal of tough lit tor the Criminal Judicial Policy of ＂Combining Leniency with Rigidity＇. However, the recent a- mendment of Criminal Law doesn＇t make allowance for such issues at all. Henceforth, the author recommends a more reasonable penalty-measurement-equity-procedure through the rectification of the current Application for Recheck procedure. The new procedure features in the dualistic arrangement of the recheck organ and the application provider organ.