提升刑事司法公信力的路徑思考－－兼論人民陪審制向何處去

Thinking on the Path of Enhancing Credibility of Criminal Justice: The Future of Poeple's Jury System

中央吹響了新一輪司法體制改革的號角，實現司法獨立已箭在弦上。然而，刑事司法不同於民事和行政司法，實行司法獨立亦不能消除導致司法腐敗的根源，難以顯著降低冤假錯案的發生率，改變不了司法不透明的局面，很難拉近判決結論與民眾正義觀的距離，因而無法顯著提高刑事司法的公信力。提高刑事司法公信力有賴於實現司法民主，但現行人民陪審制重象徵意義而輕實際效果，陪審員只陪不審，沒有發揮分權制衡的功能，因而必須改革。有關人民陪審制改革的三種方案中，陪審團制更有利於提高刑事司法公信力，應當成為人民陪審制的改革方向。China has started a new round of judicial reform, which will improve judicial independence. However, criminal justice is different from civil justice and administrative justice. It is impossible for judicial independence to eliminate the root causes of corruption in the judiciary, and it is difficult to significantly reduce the incidence od unjust, false or wrong cases Judicial independence can't change the situation of judicial opacity and narrow the distance between judgment and public opinion about justice. Therefore, it is difficult for judicial independence to significantly increase the credibility of criminal justice. Enhancing the credibility of criminal justice depends on judicial democracy. The people's jury system stresses on the symbolism but look down actual results. Due to jurors only 'accompany' no 'trial', the people's jury system did not play then proper functions. Therefore, the people's jury system must be reformed. The jury system is more conductive to improving the credibility of criminal justice, and should be the right direction of China's experiment.