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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Legal Studies

Criminal law

I'm trying to find the closest English expression for the following (I'll try to explain it as briefly as possible). A person has committed a crime, which is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of up to 5 years (so it's nothing very serious). The State Attorney's Office presents the case with the evidence to the court and asks the court to impose a judgement on the basis of the evidence, without a trial. If the judge agrees with this request, he/she issues XY. My context is a sentence which says that in the year 2014, there were for example 125 XYs issued (or imposed). This is some kind of a summary judgement, but as far as I could find, summary judgement is issued in civil litigation. Or could it be also in criminal cases?
Thanks in advance for any help or links where to look for this.
  

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His crime carries financial penalty or sentence range up to 5 years.

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  • His crime carries financial penalty or sentence range up to 5 years.
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His crime carries financial penalty or sentence range up to 5 years.
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Are you sure that these were summary judgements finding an alleged criminal guilty?
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Yes, it is a judgement imposed by court in a short procedure without trial and the alleged criminal is always found guilty as a result. The point is that it is a crime, for example related to facilitation of smuggling of migrants, not a civil case. The law strictly prescribes penalties for such crime, in this case either a fine or imprisonment of up to 5 years. Both the police and the State Attorn
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'Summary judgement' would appear to be the appropriate term for this.
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Thanks. However, I would definitely want to stress the fact that the person in question is found guilty. Would it then be more appropriate to say "summary conviction". I've found out that in Canada there are "summary conviction offences" where the court adjudges a fine to be paid or imposes a term of imprisonment. This is the closest to my example as possible, and yet again I stress out that this
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I want to emphasize that my response is not a legal opinion, but rather an opinion about appropriate terminology. Based on my research, it appears that a "summary conviction" or "criminal summary judgment" are indeed the appropriate terms for what you describe. I'm speaking strictly from an American perspective, but we have inherited some legal traditions from England.

Here's a resource t
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