再审程序的理解与适用——兼评《刑事诉讼法》关于再审程序的修改

刑事再审程序,是一种非常救济程序,应当注重再审纠错与程序安定性价值之间的衡平。此次《刑事诉讼法》修改用修改两条、新增两条的方式对刑事再审程序作了一定的修改与完善,有其进步意义。但对于申诉改造、再审事由的设置、再审的启动主体以及再审审理程序的构建等核心问题并没有涉及。因而,此次《刑事诉讼法》关于再审程序的修改只能称得上是程序"微调"。从司法适用的角度来讲,新《刑事诉讼法》的有关规定尚有进一步完善、细化的必要。对此,结合中国的司法实际,可以通过司法解释的形式加以完善,以统一指导司法实践。

Understanding and Application of the Criminal Retrial Procedure——Comment on Amendment of the Criminal Retrial Procedure

Criminal retrial procedure, as an important relief procedure, should consider the balance between error correction and stability of procedure. Two articles are amended in the criminal procedure law (2012)while another two articles are added in it. Although the amendment possesses progress, they do not mention the core problems such as starting of the criminal retrial procedure and construction of the hearing procedure. So we can only say this is just an adjustment of the criminal retrial procedure. From view of judicial application, there is still room to improve. Maybe we could think about the way of judicial interpretation to solve this problem with background of current judicial practice in China.