强制作证的例外——试论在刑事诉讼中设立亲属作证特免权的立法探讨

An Exception for Forced Attestation——On the Legislation of Setting an Exemption Right for Relative Attestation in Criminal Litigation

在法律上给亲属证人设定一种拒绝作证的权利作为强制作证的例外,是我国刑事诉讼发展的必然趋势,也是当务之急。在我国《证据法》呼之欲出之际,笔者主张在维系现行刑事诉讼法的合理成分的同时,适当认可亲属证言特免权及其主体,在我国未来的《证据法》中设立亲属作证特免权制度。

It is an inevitable trend in the development of criminal litigation in China and urgency in legislation to set up a right to refuse to attest for attesters' relatives as an exception in forced attestation. On the advent of the establishment of Attestation Law in China, this article points out an appropriate recognition of exemption right and the subject for attesters' relatives, and the possibility of setting this exemption right in the future Attestation Law, while at the same time maintaining the reasonable elements in the current Criminal Law.