What problems should be paid attention to in the trial of multi-defendant joint crime cases?

In the process of trial, it is mainly necessary to distinguish the principal from the accessory and the coerced accessory, which have great influence on sentencing.

I. Confirmed * * * accomplice: 1. A principal offender is one who organizes and leads a criminal group to engage in criminal activities or plays a major role in an accomplice. 2. Those who play a secondary or auxiliary role in the same crime are accomplices. 3, play a major role, refers to the direct implementation of criminal acts in the * * * crime, and its behavior is the main reason for the occurrence of criminal results, or in advance to woo, collude with others, put forward criminal intentions, and make suggestions. Play a secondary or auxiliary role

2. Sentencing of principal and accessory: 1. Sentencing of the principal offender. According to the legal punishment range to which criminal acts actually belong, the punishment type or sentence of the principal offender shall be determined according to the principle of consistency between criminal responsibility and punishment, and no heavier punishment shall be imposed. 2. Accessory sentencing (1) Accessory shall be given a lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment according to the principal offender.

Three. Program part: 1. Cases that do not belong to * * * joint crime, even if there is some connection, such as the defendant participated in several * * * joint crimes, or several defendants did not collude with each other, but infringed on the same object respectively, should be handled separately.

2 * * The case has not yet been concluded, and if the fugitive accomplice is arrested, the whole case shall be tried together.

3. The defendant in the same case has been sentenced, and the judgment of the defendant in the same case should be regarded as an important reference standard for the sentencing of the defendant later prosecuted, so as to achieve a balanced sentencing.