Abstract:

In penal procedure law, aim is that material truth is to be found in forensic way. Decisions as to accusations taken as a result of the revelation of material truth provides psychological relaxing for defendant whose honour and prestige were damaged by being accused since it provides that defendant is acquitted in front of society. As honour and prestige are values that state is obliged to protect according to 17th. Article of Constitution, it has obligations to take relevant necessary measures about this. As impeaching a person is a right for the state, the wish of defendant to be free of this impeaching should be considered as an equally important demand. In this essay, the institution “delaying of announcement of the verdict” that was taken into our law with the thought of restorative justice and that is one of the tools of individualising punishment has been assessed in the context of defendant’s right to be acquitted (to be proven innocent) in front of a court

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