When a notification of any of the following judicial decisions has been made with regard to a defendant who has received pronouncement of a judgment sentencing the defendant to imprisonment or a heavier sentence, Article 342-2 does not apply to that defendant:
拘禁刑以上の刑に処する判決の宣告を受けた被告人について、次に掲げる裁判の告知があつたときは、当該被告人に対しては、第三百四十二条の二の規定は、適用しない。
A judgment reversing the original judgment that sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier sentence;
拘禁刑以上の刑に処する原判決を破棄する判決
A ruling dismissing prosecution in the case charged to the court relating to the original judgment that sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier sentence.
拘禁刑以上の刑に処する原判決に係る被告事件についての公訴を棄却する決定
When the pronouncement of the judgment set out in item (i) of the preceding paragraph has been made (excluding the case where a judicial decision prescribed in Article 345 has further been rendered pursuant to the proviso to Article 400), the detention warrant pertaining to the ruling under Article 342-8, paragraph (1) (limited to the portion pertaining to item (i), and including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 404) loses its effect.
When an appeal against a judgment sentencing to imprisonment or a heavier sentence has been dismissed, the permission under Article 342-2 (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 404) loses its effect.
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imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.