论刑事案件中人民陪审员的事实认定范围

潜在人民陪审员对刑事裁判事项的归类并不全和裁判事实的理论分类一致，应当认真对待其中反映的重要问题。刑事裁判叙事表明事实认定问题不等同于纯粹的事实问题，事实认定活动同样需要认定法律问题。在人民陪审员参与审判的案件中，对事实认定范围的确定应当综合考量裁判事项对法律理解程度的要求、政策和立法目的、裁判可接受性等因素。人民陪审员的事实认定范围应为定罪事实和死刑案件量刑事实，排除“二级事实”、非死刑案件量刑事实和程序法事实；事实认定权的职权范围应为认定指控罪名是否成立、事实是否足以判处死刑、证据是否具有相关性、司法证明是否达到证明标准等。

On the Scope of Fact finding by People's Assessors in Criminal Cases

As people's assessors in China, their perceptions of the categorization of criminal adjudicative issues are not consistent with the Chinese theory of the criminal law. Therefore, it is high time we pay attention to this issue. The narrative of criminal adjudication suggests that issues about fact finding are different from purely factual issues. This is because that fact finding also requires the identification of legal issues. When people's assessors determining the scope of factual findings, it is important to comprehensively consider the requirements of legal understanding, policies, legislative purposes, the acceptability of the decision, and the ability of citizens to participate in the trial. The facts that the people's assessors are entitled to find shall be limited to the facts of conviction and the facts of sentencing in capital cases, excluding the “secondary facts”, the facts of sentencing in non-capital cases and the facts of the procedural law. The power over fact-finding shall be to determine whether the charge is established or not, whether the facts are sufficient to impose the death penalty, whether the evidence is relevant and whether the judicial proof meets the standard of proof, and so forth.