刑事被告人权利的宪法化问题

中国刑事司法改革的一个重大课题是将被告人的重要诉讼权利上升为宪法性权利 ,并在刑事诉讼程序建构中尊重和实现这些权利 ,在司法体系中建立一种针对宪法性侵权行为的权利救济机制。然而 ,在被告人权利宪法化问题上 ,我国的刑事诉讼法还存在着不少亟待解决的重大课题。只有在被告人权利宪法化方面取得实质性的突破和进展 ,刑事诉讼法对于犯罪嫌疑人、被告人权利的保护 ,以及未来以加强这种权利保护为标志的法律改革 ,才有其坚实的法律基础

The Issue of Constitutionalization of the Criminal Defendants' Rights

One of the major tasks in the criminal justice reform of China is to make the main litigious rights be constitutional rights, to respect and realize these rights in the construction of criminal procedure, and to establish a kind of right relief mechanism against constitutional infringing acts. However, as to the constitutionalization of defendants' rights, there are still a lot of problems that need to be settle urgently in the Chinese laws. Only with the substantial breakthrough and development in the aspect of the constitutionalization of defendants' rights, the protection of the rights of suspects and defendants provided by criminal procedure law, and the legal reform symbolized with strengthening the protection of such kind of rights in future may have a solid legal foundation.