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The Multidimensional Studies of the Theory of the Standard of Criminal Proof Under the Principle of Trial Centered Criminal Procedure

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“If there is a trial, it must be proved”, so trial is based on proof and the proof is directed by legal standard of criminal proof, judges make judgments only when arriving the standard of criminal proof. The legitimacy of trial is closely related to the achievement of legal standard of criminal proof: under the system of divinity evidence, the legitimacy of judicial decision resorts to the indication of gods; under the system of legal evidence, formal legal reality intensifies the legitimacy of trial; under the discretionary evaluation system, the legitimacy of trial performances as formation of discretional evaluation of evidence of judge.

The third part of the article had been published on the Jilin University Journal, Social Sciences Edition.

Associate professor of Jilin University, Doctor of law. Research direction is criminal procedure law, evidence law.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Huang (2001, p. 243).

  2. 2.

    Bayless (1996, p. 37).

  3. 3.

    For a long time, the arguments about the standard of criminal proof, that is the argument between the legal truth and the objective truth.

  4. 4.

    Wu (2014, p. 150).

  5. 5.

    Shen (2015, p. 5).

  6. 6.

    Strictly speaking, the investigation centralism and the trial centralism are not in corresponding categories. The latter one is corresponding to the “assemble-line” style, while the former one is the product derived from the “assemble-line” style. Based on the demands of the theoretical evidence, this paper directly makes them correspond to each other.

  7. 7.

    Li (1992, p. 464).

  8. 8.

    Such the typical article, Long (2004), Chen (2012).

  9. 9.

    Chen (2014b, pp. 179–181).

  10. 10.

    Murphy (1997, p. 109).

  11. 11.

    Min (2015, p. 42).

  12. 12.

    Min (2015, p. 42).

  13. 13.

    Wu (2014, p. 158).

  14. 14.

    Shen (2015, p. 5).

  15. 15.

    Chen (2014a, p. 254).

  16. 16.

    Chen (2014a, p. 260).

  17. 17.

    He (2001, p. 54).

  18. 18.

    Li and Wang (2001, p. 126).

  19. 19.

    Long (1999, p. 301).

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Yang, B. (2021). The Multidimensional Studies of the Theory of the Standard of Criminal Proof Under the Principle of Trial Centered Criminal Procedure. In: Zhang, B., Tong, S., Cao, J., Fan, C. (eds) Facts and Evidence. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9639-1_19

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