Guilty Plea in the Criminal Procedure of Ukraine

Abstract

Taking into consideration a high crime rate in Ukraine, the urgent problem of procedural form differentiation arises. Mainly the necessity to accelerate and simplify the proceedings arises in those cases, when to the court sufficient evidence of a person’s guilt is served, and she/he does not deny it. In such cases, observing the rights of trial participants, it is possible to try a case without a complete hearing. The author draws attention to the guilty plea institute, which is widely used in England and the USA, where 70-90 percent of all criminal cases are tried in a simplified manner by entering into the plea between the party for the prosecution and the party for the defense. The new procedure, undoubtedly, has a number of advantages. Therefore, the author came to the conclusion that guilty plea institute should be introduced in the Ukrainian criminal justice system as soon as possible.