Retroactivity of Criminal law and reduction of punishment
The article deals with the absence of legal certainty regarding the criminal penalty reductionlimits in connection with the enactment of a new criminal law, mitigating the punishment of aconvict. Some arguments in favor of reducing judicial discretion when deciding the question of a reducedpenalty are given. In its Order №4-П of 20.04.2006 the Constitutional Courts pointed to thenecessity of providing such a mechanism in law. The author suggests some possible options of constructingalgorithms of penalty reduction in accordance with p.2 Article 10 of the Criminal Code of theRussian Federation.
Keywords
уголовное наказание, обратная сила уголовного закона, сокращение наказания, criminal penalty, retroactivity of criminal law, reduction of penaltyAuthors
Name | Organization | |
Valeev Marat T. | National Research Tomsk State University | mtv666@yandex.ru |
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