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KapitolaQuestions of Judicial Interpretation of Certain Felonies in the Trial of the People’s Commissioners of the Soviet Republic of Hungary
Rok vydání: 2022https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P280-0156-2022-12
Abstrakt
Following the fall of the Soviet Republic of Hungary, the criminal prosecution of the political leaders of the former Bolshevik state confronted the courts of the country with a number of problematic questions on the interpretation of both constitutional and criminal law. From a constitutional perspective, establishing the applicable law under which the actions of the defendants would be evaluated was not obvious as the validity of both the Soviet Republic and that of the previous so-called People’s Republic of Hungary were dubious. From a criminal perspective – as at the time being criminal codes lacked specific crimes for the prosecution of political leaders of past dictatorships. Therefore, prosecutors and adjudicating courts tried to evaluate political actions committed using state power as if these would have been committed by private individuals which raised a number of interesting legal problems of interpretation.
Klíčová slova
Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Transitional Justice; Bolshevism; Accessory (of Crime).
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