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Revue internationale de droit pénal
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I.S.B.N.2-86586-990-3
638 pages

p. 559 à 577
doi: 10.3917/ridp.721.0559

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Vol. 72 2001/1-2

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The presumption of innocence and the cour d’assises : is France ready for adversarial procedure ?

Michel Bonnieu

Plan de l'article

• I. Introduction

• II. General Organisation of the Cour d’assises.

— 2.1 Seat of the Cour d’Assises

— 2.2 Principle of unity.

— 2.3 Venue of sessions.

— 2.4 Opening of sessions.

• III. Professional Judges and Lay Participation in the Cour d’assiseS.

— 3.1 Presidency of the Cour d’Assises.

— 3.2 Professional assessors.

— 3.3 Lay assessors.

— 3.4 Number of lay assessors.

— 3.5 Jurisdiction of lay assessors.

— 3.6 Rights and obligations of lay assessors during the proceedings.

• IV. Proceedings Before the Cour d’assises.

— 4.1 Principle of oral proceedings

— 4.2 Principle of public hearing

— 4.3 Principle of intime conviction.

— 4.4 Lay judges and hearings.

— 4.5 Questions put to the jury.

— 4.6 Voting procedures.

• V. Presumption of Innocence Throughout Criminal Proceedings

— 5.1 Introduction.

— 5.2. Recommendations strengthening the rights of the defendant.

— 5.3 Recommendations reforming pretrial detention.

— 5.4 Recommendations concerning length of proceedings.

— 5.5 Recommendations concerning communication with the media.

• VI. Criticism of the Cour d’assises.

— 6.1 Brief history of the Cour d’Assises

— 6.2 Appeal to the Cour de cassation.

— 6.3 Procedural rules regulating criminal trials.

— 6.4 Length of proceedings

— 6.5 No reasons given in the decision

• VII. What Will Lay Participation in the Criminal Trial Be Like in France in the 21^st Century ?

— 7.1 Introduction

— 7.2 Why a reform for the Cour d’Assises ?

— 7.3 What reform for the Cour d’Assises ?

• VIII. Conclusion

• SOURCES

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