Changes by (Act No. 39 of 2025)
When the defendant enters a guilty plea for a count stated in the charging sheet during the proceedings under paragraph (5) of the preceding Article, a court may, upon hearing the opinions of the public prosecutor, the defendant and the defense counsel, render a ruling to try the case by a summary criminal trial only with regard to the counts for which the defendant enters a guilty plea; provided, however, that this does not apply to cases punishable by the death penalty, life imprisonment, or imprisonment whose minimum term is one year or more.
被告人が、前条第五項の手続に際し、起訴状に記載された訴因について有罪である旨を陳述したときは、裁判所は、検察官、被告人及び弁護人の意見を聴き、有罪である旨の陳述のあつた訴因に限り、簡易公判手続によつて審判をする旨の決定をすることができる。ただし、死刑又は無期若しくは短期一年以上の拘禁刑に当たる事件については、この限りでない。
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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.
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.