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Continued application of 1969 Penal Code revocation regime for conditional suspensions under intertemporal application of lex mitior

Case Number ICCJ_148821
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Jurisdiction Romania (RO)
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The High Court of Cassation and Justice issued a binding decision resolving a question of law raised by the Bucharest Court of Appeal, establishing that the legal regime for conditional suspension of sentence execution under Article 81 of the 1969 Penal Code remains applicable to sentences pronounced after the entry into force of the current Penal Code (February 1, 2014), even when the suspension was ordered based on the application of the more favorable law. The dispute concerned whether the 1969 Penal Code rules, which provided a more favorable regime regarding revocation or annulment of conditional suspension, continued to govern cases where a defendant committed a new offense during the probation period, despite the new Penal Code having entered into force. The court determined that the decisive legal basis was the principle of intertemporal application of the more favorable penal law (lex mitior), mandating that the procedural and substantive conditions for revocation or annulment of a conditional suspension originally established under the 1969 law must be preserved, regardless of the date of the subsequent judgment or the specific type of penalty applied for the new offense.

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art. 477 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură penală; Continued application of 1969 Penal Code revocation regime for conditional suspensions under intertemporal application of lex mitior: The dispute concerned whether the 1969 Penal Code rules, which provided a more favorable regime regarding revocation or annulment of conditional suspension, continued to govern cases where a defendant committed a new offense during the probation period, despite the new Penal Code having entered into force. The court determined that the decisive legal basis was the principle of intertemporal application of the more favorable penal law (lex mitior), mandating that the procedural and substantive conditions for revocation or annulment of a conditional suspension originally established under the 1969 law must be preserved, regardless of the date of the subsequent judgment or the specific type of penalty applied for the new offense.

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suspension of sentence suspension period principle of lex mitior sentencing revocation of annulment procedural orders

Cited Legislation

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art. 477 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură penală
Procedural basis establishing that the decision is obligatory from the date of publication in the Official Monitor.
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Decizia nr. 1/2022
Applicability of 1969 Penal Code regime for revocation of conditional suspension in mixed-law sentencing cases
Decizia nr. 12/2019
Conflict over the revocation regime of conditional sentence suspensions imposed under the old Penal Code as the more favorable law after the new Penal Code's entry into force
ICCJ_185455
Referral to resolve whether conditional suspension revocation under the 1969 Penal Code survives when the principal sentence was imposed under the current Code, despite constitutional bar on combining successive laws for favorable penalty application
ICCJ_120647
Sanctioning regime for revoked conditional suspension under old Penal Code versus intermediate plurality under new Penal Code
ICCJ_119897
Conflicting legal regimes for executing suspended penalties after revocation: application of transitional recidivism provisions under the former Penal Code

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art. 477 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură penală

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R O M Â N I A

ÎNALTA CURTE DE CASAŢIE ŞI JUSTIŢIE

COMPLETUL PENTRU DEZLEGAREA UNOR CHESTIUNI DE DREPT ÎN MATERIE PENALĂ

Minuta deciziei nr. 12 Dosar nr. 404/1/2019

Şedinţa din data de 07 mai 2019

ÎN NUMELE LEGII

D E C I D E:

Admite sesizarea formulată de Curtea de Apel Bucureşti - Secţia I penală prin încheierea de şedinţă din data de 07 ianuarie 2019 pronunţată în dosarul nr. 5780/202/2017 (2031/2018) prin care se solicită dezlegarea următoarei chestiuni de drept: „dacă regimul suspendării condiţionate a executării pedepsei, inclusiv sub aspectul revocării, este cel prevăzut de Codul penal din 1969, indiferent de felul pedepsei aplicate pentru infracţiunea săvârşită în cursul termenului de încercare, şi în cazul în care suspendarea condiţionată a executării pedepsei a fost dispusă după intrarea în vigoare a Codului penal actual, ca efect al aplicării legii penale mai favorabile”.

Stabileşte că, indiferent de felul pedepsei aplicate pentru infracţiunea săvârşită în cursul termenului de încercare, regimul suspendării condiţionate a executării pedepsei aplicată în baza art. 81 din Codul penal din 1969, ca efect al aplicării legii penale mai favorabile, printr-o hotărâre pronunţată după 01 februarie 2014, se menţine şi după intrarea în vigoare a Codului penal actual, inclusiv sub aspectul revocării sau anularii acesteia, fiind cel prevăzut de Codul penal din 1969.

Obligatorie de la data publicării în Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, potrivit art. 477 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură penală.

Pronunţată în şedinţă publică astăzi, 07 mai 2019.