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Subject: продолжая грустную тему Помогите, пожалуйста"В возбуждении уголовного дела отказано в связи с отсутствием состава преступления". Спасибо большое |
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| The indictment was denied due to the lack of corpus delicti |
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I would say: “Criminal indictment was denied for lack of prima facie evidence.“ "Corpus delicti," IMHO, refers to a common legal practice of requiring the presence of the dead body before a murder case could be made. But what if the alleged crime does not involve murder at all? What if a parent is charged with criminal negligence toward a child? The child is still alive, there is no dead body, and no one is looking for one. Prosecution attempts to prove that criminal negligence took place, but fails to prove it. So the Grand Jury refuses to indict. I am not a lawyer, so I may be totally wrong on this, so authoritative comments from you “legal eagles” out there would be appreciated. |
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2 ms 801 - corpus delicti is not only about a "body". There is no body in, say, larceny, and yet there is c.d. of...larceny! In this particular case (and see our ongoing discussion elsewhere at this Forum), I would perhaps rather use the active voice and say smth to the effect that (after due consideration of available evidence)(the Procuracy, the police... etc) refused to open an inquiry into the (name of matter) also, "due to THE lack of corpus delicti" strikes me as a gratuitous calque. |
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I think I now understand what caused the confusion - the Latin term corpus is not the same as the English "corpse". "Корпус" здесь - в смысле "набор, совокупность" (признаков, позволяющих сделать вывод о наличии преступного деяния, - т.е. объект, субъект, объективная сторона и субъективная сторона преступного деяния). [Это ведь токо наши суды умеют приговаривать человека к 20 годам за, цитирую, "убийство", когда ТРУПОВ УБИТЫХ В НАЛИЧИИ НЕТ. Я может быть в данном контексте, и если аудитория - подготовленная, но не обязательно состоящая сплошь из ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ ЮРИСТОВ, сказал бы что-нибудь типа After a (preliminary) inquiry (/probe) unto the matter, the police/prosecutor (whoever) decided not to / decided against open(ing) a full-blown) (formal) investigation / decided against formally opening a criminal case..., due to the absence of corpus delicti (last two words in italics) I don't think you "deny" an indictment. A judge may "dismiss" it. |
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Простите, конечно preliminary inquiry INto the matter, not "unto". Ещё, по поводу prima facie evidence - это не совсем так чтобы "состав преступления". Состав - сложнее, чем просто "признаки". Это целая совокупность квалифицирующих признаков преступного деяния. |
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Еще, кстати, один вариант на "возбуждение уголовного дела" - to bring criminal prosecution (against someone) Вот недавний пример: как известно, в мире сейчас стали поприжимать даже и "professional advisers", i.e. типа лоерОв, аудиторов и т.п. за "агрессивное налоговое планирование". Whatеver it means :-) Недавно была статья в ФТ. Вот выдержка: DoJ is bringing criminal prosecution against tax advisers, for abusive tax avoidance Ещё вариант: (they) are being investigated... (others) may be prosecuted - но тут разница в том, что по первым ведется cледствие, тогда как вторым уже грозит собственно предъявление обвинения |
| and in any case, in common law countries, at least in the usa, DA's cannot indict themselves. for that, they convene a grand jury or they go to a judge. DA's CAN, though, bring criminal charges, or prosecution against somebody. but those charges are not an indictment until a grand jury votes on it or a judge, after a preliminary hearing, finds that there is PROBABLE CAUSE to sustain the charges. in the us, a da can circumvent the prliminary hearing process by going to a grand jury with an indictment recomendation. any felony would require a grand jury indictment, a DA cannot do that. however, s/he can issue what amounts to an indictment for misdemeanors, but in that case the charge is called accusation, to set it apart from grand jury indictment. |
| as for the translation, that depends on what u r translating. (whoever) has decided not to pursue criminal charges against (somebody) by reason of a failure to establish corpus delicti. |
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