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Admissibility of preliminary reference on compensation for improper detention where prior sentences were executed without conditional release provisions

Case Number ICCJ_153789
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Jurisdiction Romania (RO)
Decision Date
Outcome Inadmissible

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The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed as inadmissible the preliminary reference filed by the Braila County Court, leaving the lower court's procedural posture intact without a preliminary ruling on the merits of the legal question. The dispute concerned a request for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Article 551(1) of Law No. 254/2013, as amended by Law No. 169/2017, specifically whether compensation for inadequate detention conditions must account for sentences executed before the current period of detention when conditional release provisions were not applicable to those prior terms. The decisive legal basis is Article 477(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which mandates that such preliminary rulings are obligatory from the date of publication in the Official Gazette, thereby establishing the finality of the dismissal regarding the admissibility of the referral.

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art. 551 alin. (1) din Legea nr. 254/2013, art. 477 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură penală; Admissibility of preliminary reference on compensation for improper detention where prior sentences were executed without conditional release provisions: The dispute concerned a request for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Article 551(1) of Law No. 254/2013, as amended by Law No. 169/2017, specifically whether compensation for inadequate detention conditions must account for sentences executed before the current period of detention when conditional release provisions were not applicable to those prior terms. The decisive legal basis is Article 477(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which mandates that such preliminary rulings are obligatory from the date of publication in the Official Gazette, thereby establishing the finality of the dismissal regarding the admissibility of the referral.

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compensation for detention reference for a preliminary ruling conditional release code of criminal procedure sentencing preliminary question

Cited Legislation

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art. 551 alin. (1) din Legea nr. 254/2013
4614/196/2019, prin care se solicită pronunţarea unei hotărâri prealabile pentru dezlegarea chestiunii de drept: „În aplicarea dispoziţiilor art. 551 alin. (1) din Legea nr. 254/2013, modificată prin Legea nr.
art. 477 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură penală
Cited in the operative part to establish that the decision is obligatory from the date of publication in the Official Gazette.
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art. 477 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură penală

Cited in the operative part to establish that the decision is obligatory from the date of publication in the Official Gazette.

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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.22 Dosar nr.2353/1/2019

Şedinţa din data de 27 noiembrie 2019

ÎN NUMELE LEGII

D E C I D E:

Respinge, ca inadmisibilă, sesizarea formulată de Tribunalul Brăila - Secţia penală în Dosarul nr. 4614/196/2019, prin care se solicită pronunţarea unei hotărâri prealabile pentru dezlegarea chestiunii de drept: „În aplicarea dispoziţiilor art. 551 alin. (1) din Legea nr. 254/2013, modificată prin Legea nr. 169/2017, referitoare la compensarea în cazul cazării în condiţii necorespunzătoare a persoanelor private de libertate, dacă la calcularea pedepsei efectiv executate se are în vedere şi o pedeapsă executată la termen anterior pedepsei care se execută la acest moment şi în privinţa căreia nu au fost aplicabile dispoziţiile legale referitoare la instituţia liberării condiţionate”.

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, 27 noiembrie 2019.