Analysis of the Dilemma and Optimization Path of Guaranteeing the Voluntariness of Guilty Plea and Punishment for the Pursued Individuals from the Perspective of Law and Economics
The establishment of the system of leniency for pleading guilty andaccepting punishments is an improvement and optimization of China’s criminalprocedure, and the relevant data show that the implementation of the systemof leniency for pleading guilty and accepting punishments has achieved betterresults, and that the existence of the system of leniency for pleading guiltyand accepting punishments is a necessity from the perspective of law andeconomics. However, in terms of the current judicial practice, the accused pleadguilty to punishment voluntarily guarantee the existence of dilemmas, fromthe prosecution, defense, trial of the three parties, including the prosecution level of the prosecution and defense information asymmetry, the defense levelof the duty lawyer system in the form of the trial level of the voluntariness ofthe review is not in place, which leads to the uncertainty of the transactionincreases, the transaction by the limited rationality of the constraints, theaccused plead guilty to punishment voluntarily difficult to guarantee. TheGovernment should also make recommendations on how to address the aboveproblems. To address the above problems, targeted optimization programsshould be put forward: the prosecution level to establish the evidence disclosuresystem, the defense level to improve the duty counsel system, the trial side tostrengthen the voluntary review of the accused plea plea, which not only canensure that the accused to make the decision to plea guilty and punishment isout of voluntariness and wisdom, but also minimize the transaction costs ofplea bargaining, so that the system of leniency for pleading guilty and acceptingpunishments to play the role it should have.