During the trial, some criminal suspects remained silent in court and refused to plead guilty. In this case, will refusing to plead guilty to evade legal responsibility?
1. The criminal suspect’s refusal to plead guilty is mainly manifested in the following aspects:
1. The defendant refuses to plead guilty since the date of his arrest. This phenomenon is often seen in drug cases. Especially prominent. In trial practice, the one-on-one nature of drug cases results in conviction and sentencing mainly relying on the unanimous confessions of drug dealers, lacking corresponding physical evidence. The defendant was lucky and unwilling to confess truthfully in an attempt to evade punishment.
2. The defendant confessed truthfully after being captured, but as time went by, he changed his confession and was unwilling to admit the facts of the crime. When some defendants were first arrested, they admitted the facts of the crime under strong pressure from the judicial organs, but deep down they were unwilling to accept sanctions and resisted reform. After the initial panic, re-establish psychological defenses and resist legal sanctions.
3. Regarding the detailed division of labor and cooperation in the crime, the defendants passed the blame and were unwilling to bear the main responsibility. This phenomenon often occurs in the trial of robbery and robbery cases.
The defendants in robbery and snatching cases have relatively low educational levels, and most of them are fellow villagers, friends, or gangs. After the incident, the defendants tried every means to shift the responsibility to others in order to reduce their criminal liability.
4. There were many flaws in the evidence of the public security organs, which caused the defendant to voluntarily plead guilty during the police and prosecutorial stages. However, in court, after being defended by the defense lawyer, he showed remorse and refused to plead guilty. The main reason is that Manifested in rape cases. Since the victim's multiple statements were inconsistent with the defendant's confession, the defendant believed in court that it was not rape but adultery.