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An Amendment To The Criminal Law

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Kriminālprocesa likumā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law of criminal procedure amendment of criminal procedure law in the Republic of Latvia (Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2005, nr. 11, 20; 2006, nr. 4; 3, 13, 2007, no. 1, 15; 2008. no; 2009, 9, 14, 15 no; Latvian journal 2010, 19, 178. no; 117. in 2011, no; 2012, 92, no. 189; 2013, 7, 21, 61, 112, 183.187.252.,, no; 2014, 113 no) the following amendments: 1. Express article 449 of the third subparagraph, the first sentence as follows: "the written evidence and other documents relating to the subject matter of proof at the hearing reads or plays in whole or in part, except where the person implementing the defence, the Prosecutor and the victim or his representative agrees that this proof read or play is not necessary." 2. Make the following article 641: "641. article.  Conditional sentencing or during the extension of the district (City) Court judge sentenced, on the basis of residence, national probation service application in criminal law cases may be decided on the punishment laid down in the judgment enforcement is conditional on the convicted or the extension of up to one year. The application looks at the hearing, without requiring a criminal. " 3. Put the following in article 643: "643. article. Conditional early release from punishment (1) in accordance with article 61 of the criminal code or article 65, the third part of the convict or 3.1 conditionally released before the term of deprivation of liberty district (City) Court judge after the sentence, if the place of custodial institutions submission. (2) application to the court hearing, without requiring a criminal. (3) if the judge rejects the application, it can be re-submitted after four months. (4) If before the expiry of the conditional release without justification to fulfil the execution of criminal sentences provided for in the law governing the national probation service or obligations, district (City) Court judge sentenced, on the basis of residence, national probation service may decide the application on the part of the sentence served. (5) If before expiry of conditional release, for which suitable for electronic monitoring, without valid reason, to fulfil the execution of criminal penalties laid down in the law governing electronic surveillance responsibilities, withdraw their consent for electronic surveillance or the circumstances in which he lives, it is no longer possible for the implementation of electronic monitoring, the district (City) Court judge sentenced, on the basis of residence, national probation service in the application, shall take a decision on the part of the fine is not served. (6) where a relatively early release, for which suitable for electronic monitoring, is the exemplary execution of criminal sentences served in statutory and regulatory national probation service obligations and article 61 of the Criminal Code of the deadline laid down in the third paragraph, under which conditional early release from punishment without electronic monitoring, district (City) Court judge sentenced, on the basis of residence, national probation service application You can decide on the removal of electronic surveillance. " 4. Turn off the article 644. in the second paragraph, the words "custodial institutions or Administrative Commission". 5.651. Article: supplement the first sentence of the first paragraph with the words "as well as a representative of the authority responsible for the enforcement of"; to make the seventh part of the second sentence as follows: "this law provided for in article 643 decisions can only be appealed on this article provides procedural non-compliance." 6. turn off 654. article. 7. transitional provisions be supplemented with 54, 55 and 56 points as follows: "the law on 54. arrangements for the conditional convicted is totally or partially cancel the obligations imposed by the Court or the decision on fines laid down in the judgment execution conditionally sentenced or extension of probationary period, which was in effect until January 31, 2015, are applied in respect of a person sentenced to a conditional 2015 January 31. 55. the framework Law on the order in which the convict is released from probation before the deadline, which was valid until January 31, 2015, is applied, if the application for conditional early release of the sentenced received from custodial institutions administrative commissions. 56. the Framework Act on the part of the sentence served execution conditionally released before the deadline, which was valid until January 31, 2015, applies to convicts who released relatively early, on the basis of the penitentiary authorities application of the Administrative Commission. " The law shall enter into force on February 1, 2015. The Parliament adopted the law in 2014 on 16 October. The President a. Smith in Riga 2014 October 29