When only a public prosecutor has filed an appeal and the appeal has been dismissed or withdrawn and the original judgment becomes final and binding, except when an acquittal becomes final and binding by a dismissal or withdrawal, the State compensates the defendant or the person who was the defendant in the case for the expenses caused by the appeal in the court of instance; provided however, that the State may not be required to compensate the defendant or the person who was the defendant for expenses which have arisen from a cause imputable to said person.
検察官のみが上訴をした場合において、上訴が棄却され又は取り下げられて当該上訴に係る原裁判が確定したときは、これによつて無罪の判決が確定した場合を除き、国は、当該事件の被告人又は被告人であつた者に対し、上訴によりその審級において生じた費用の補償をする。ただし、被告人又は被告人であつた者の責めに帰すべき事由によつて生じた費用については、補償をしないことができる。
public prosecutor
検察官
The official who brings a prosecution (公訴) for a crime before a court (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 247), and who may decide not to prosecute where, in view of the offender's character, age and circumstances, the gravity and circumstances of the offence and what happened after it, prosecution is not needed (Article 248). In criminal cases a public prosecutor asks the court to apply the law correctly and oversees the carrying out of its judgments; and, as the representative of the public interest, a public prosecutor also does the work other laws and regulations assign to a public prosecutor, which is not limited to criminal cases (Public Prosecutors Office Act, Article 4). A public prosecutor may investigate any crime (Article 6, paragraph (1)). Public prosecutors work through the public prosecutors offices (検察庁): the Supreme, High, District and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (Article 1).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 247, 248 and Public Prosecutors Office Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6 as a reference.