“Justice law”: main points of project

After the joint joint commission, it remains in the Senate and the National Assembly to vote the bill for confidence in the judicial institution, without the possibility of modifying it, which should be a formality.

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After the agreement concluded Thursday in Joint Joint Committee (CMP) on the bill for confidence in the judicial institution, there remains one final step before its promulgation. The “reading” of the conclusions of the CMP followed by a vote, a formality, should intervene by mid-November in front of the two assemblies. Here are the main points of this text by Eric Dupond-Moretti, Minister of Justice.

Filmed hearings. The hearings of civil, criminal, economic or administrative justice can be filmed “for a reasons of public policy, informative, cultural or scientific”. The authorization will be given by the leaders of jurisdiction after opinion of the Ministry of Justice. The sequences will not be disseminated until a case is definitely judged.

Supervision of investigations. Preliminary surveys can not last more than two years (plus a year, on parquet decision). In the event of an international rogatory commission, this period is suspended. It was a request for investigative services on tax evasion and economic delinquency. Investigations for terrorism or organized crime will be able to last five years.

Centralization of series crimes and “Cold Cases”. One or more national poles will be able to be created for serial or unclean crimes. A genetic fingerprint file is created in order to cross folders a priori without links.

Generalization of departmental criminal courses. These courses composed of five popular jury judges will replace, from 1 January 2023, the courses for the punished crimes of fifteen or twenty years in prison (mainly rapes). The current experiment will go to an end in 2022, as the Senate wanted.

Reform of the trouble reduction regime. Credit reduction credits attributed to incarceration that can be amputated for disciplinary reason are deleted. The new sentence reduction mechanism granted according to detention behavior and reintegration efforts can represent up to six months in the first year.

Liberation under automatic stress. People performing a sentence of less than two years in prison will benefit from the right to three months of their end of a stress release, except in the absence of accommodation. A measure that supposed to avoid dry outings, but especially aimed at slowing up the rise in the prison population.

Hardening sentences for murderers of police officers. The condemnation of the murderer of a custodian of the public authority, punishable by the perpetuity criminal imprisonment, may be accompanied by a period of safety of thirty years, against twenty-two years so far.

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