证据法视域下刑事缺席审判制度探究

The study on the Trial in Absentia from the Perspective of Evidence Law

2018年10月,新通过的《刑事诉讼法》增加了刑事缺席审判程序一章,以加强国际反腐败工作和提高司法效率。由于缺席审判程序诉讼构造的特殊性,应当对适用的证据规则和证明标准进行合目的性的调整:设置一个较低的证据能力关联性的准入标准,扩大证据来源,通过传闻证据派生出其他证据;采取整体主义的证明模式,将隐蔽性书证扩大解释为被告人供述;以及根据诉讼阶段采取不同的证明标准。

In October 2018,a chapter on criminal trial in absentia was added to the Criminal Procedure Law to strength international anti-corruption efforts and improve judicial efficiency.Because of the particularity of the litigation structure of trial in absentia,the applicable rules of evidence and the standard of proof should be adjusted purposefully:setting a lower admittance standard of the relevance of the ability of evidence to expand the source of evidence,and deriving other evidence from hearsay evidence;using the holistic mode of proof and expanding the hidden documentary evidence to explain the defendant's confession;what’s more,adopting different standards of proof according to the stage of litigation.