Abbreviated Trial

Abstract

The actual criminal procedure in Albania adopted by Law no. 7905, date 21.3.1995 establishes the procedure relationships between the subjects in all phases of criminal process. In its focus this code also guarantees respecting of law and protecting defendant’s rights in criminal process. It must be underlined that the criminal procedure code beyond the ordinary trial also provides other types of trials like the abbreviated trial which implies the avoidance from ordinary way of judgment. In this paperwork will be analyzed the features of abbreviated trial, the terms of application and the consequences for defendant in a criminal process through applying the abbreviated trial. A special emphasis in this paperwork will go to analysis of taking court’s decision on acceptance or not of a request for an abbreviated trial, considered in relation to invalidity of a procedure act. This paperwork will also deal with issues of changing the legal classification of criminal offense to be judged in the abbreviated trial which will be illustrated with Constitutional Court’s practice of Albania.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3p235