Changes by (Act No. 39 of 2025)
When a public prosecutor, the defendant or the defense counsel requests the examination of a witness or a court decides to examine a witness ex officio, and there is an agreement with the person who is to be the witness under Article 350-2, paragraph (1) with regard to the witness's examination, the public prosecutor must request the examination of the statement of agreement without delay. In this case, the provisions of Article 350-7, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis.
検察官、被告人若しくは弁護人が証人尋問を請求し、又は裁判所が職権で証人尋問を行うこととした場合において、その証人となるべき者との間で当該証人尋問についてした第三百五十条の二第一項の合意があるときは、検察官は、遅滞なく、合意内容書面の取調べを請求しなければならない。この場合においては、第三百五十条の七第三項の規定を準用する。
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statement of agreement
「合意内容書面」
The document, signed jointly by the public prosecutor, the suspect or defendant and defense counsel, that sets out an agreement under Article 350-2 (Article 350-3, paragraph (2)); once prosecution is instituted in the case, the prosecutor must ask the court without delay to examine it as evidence.
Short name set inArticle 350-7, paragraph (1)
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.