Closing argument

The plea ( plea French ) is the summarized final speech of the prosecutor, the defense, the plaintiff's side, the private plaintiff, the guardian or legal representative ( in the youth criminal proceedings ), as well as the confiscation involved in a criminal case.

Final presentations are intended to represent before the last word of the defendants and against the judgment once the facts found at the trial and review by legal considerations. Finally, the plea should include a request for the result, the following ( for sentencing or acquittal ). Auxiliary requests are rare it is still connected, which would rhetorically pejorative. If the plea is not granted to the detriment of the defendant, the judgment is subject to review.

In the ( German ) criminal proceedings have to differentiate between the contents of the prosecution and the defense.

The plea of the prosecution ( prosecutor ) shall summarize the main results of the trial and conclude with a concrete application. Furthermore, the prosecutor has complied corresponding shape legislation in their plea, they both criminal sharpening as well as mitigating evidence has emphasized accordingly.

The plea of defense is of such " constraints" free. The defense should deal with the content of the prosecution case, but must not end with a specific complaint. While it is ( eg in the case of acquittal ) to make such a request quite common that the request for " a light sentence " but is generally sufficient. It is also possible "is not about ... " to apply a penalty. The court is not bound by the applications and may, at its option, either higher or lower penalty, as requested by both sides, impose.

Basically, the plea of both the defense and the prosecution offers the possibility of the trial according to their own perception - which may well be different from that of the court - to appreciate, with the allegations and the defense is summarized first. The longer the trial lasts, the more important the pleadings, as they are held immediately prior to the closing words of the accused and sentencing; are they the judgment temporally closer than some testimony that has possibly heard a few weeks ago the court.

Communication

In a general sense a plea is understood as a decisive arguing for a fact ( for example, a mayor pleads for the development of a bypass road ).