庭审中心视野下强制证人出庭作证研究

Research on Force Witness to Court from Court Trial

证人出庭作证难问题是我国刑事诉讼中的一大顽疾,修改后的刑事诉讼法虽然对证人出庭作证制度作了较为全面的规定,但立法的完善并没有明显改变实践中证人出庭难这一根本问题。当前证人出庭作证尤其是强制证人出庭的主要障碍在于立法漏洞、司法职权主义审理模式以及证人保护、补偿等配套机制不完善等方面,而改变这一困境的途径在于顺应以庭审为中心的诉讼制度改革,建立对抗制的审判模式,通过制度完善提升证人出庭的积极性和主动性,同时对强制证人出庭进行必要的限制,从而真正发挥强制证人出庭作证制度应有的功能和作用。

The difficulties in witness testimony in court is a stubborn problem in the criminal proceedings in our country. Although the revised Criminal Procedure Law on the system of witness testimony in court is more comprehensive, but the improvement of the legislation doesn＇t obviously change the situation that it＇s not easy to ask the the witness to appear in court. At present, the main obstacles to witness testimony in court, especially forcing witness to court, lies in the following aspects： legislative loopholes, the trial mode of judicial authority litigation and the inadequatesupplementary mechanism of witness protection, compensation and so on, and the way to change this dilemma is to comply with reform of the court trial centered litigation system, to set up the trial mode of adversary system. Besides, by enhancing the system, arise the enthusiasm and initiative of the witness in court, at the same time, make the necessary limitation of the force of witness to court. As a result of this, it really gives play to the due function and effect of system to force witness to court.