英文摘要 |
The exclusionary rule of illegally obtained evidence was formally incorporated into Chinese Criminal Procedure Law by the amendment of 2012. However, being a part of statute cannot guarantee the effectiveness of exclusionary rule in practice. Moreover, based on the judgments which deal with the motion to suppress the evidence obtained by torture puiported by the defense lawyers in 2013, courts usually combine the exclusionary rule with the truth of the suspects' confessions and are reluctant to exclude the confession merely because of the illegality of the evidence. There are at least two reasons for this: firstly, due to the lack of independence, Chinese courts cannot fulfill the task to discipline the police violation; secondly, because of the flexibility of the legal language and the difficulty of proving the fact of illegal means, such as torture, there is a wide range of discretion of judges on the application of the exclusionary rule. In order to make the exclusionary rule to be effective in practice, the law should make the exclusionary rule a clear-cut rule by modifying the current post-disciplining rule based on the fact of torture into a precautionary one based on the procedural violation. |