Summa Iniuria: Ein Pitaval der Justizirrtümer
Summa iniuria: A Pitaval of miscarriages of justice ( Subtitle: five hundred cases of human error in the area of justice in criminal and social psychological perspective ), published in Basel in 1976, is the most extensive and in addition to Schiller as a doctor is the most important signature of Hans Martin Suter master, and " one of the most detailed documentation about wrongful convictions in the German language is ".
Content
The Pitaval based on Suter Master experience as an employee in the Swiss office against official and voluntary association ( where he had supported revisions of various murder trials ) and treats the misjudgment of cultural history based on Max Hirschberg's main sources of error the course of justice. Suter master considered his book as a sort of " continuation and extension " by Bernt Engelmann's Germany report. It also provides a kind of settlement with the court in the affair Jaccoud medically involved Undritz Erik and Pierre Hegg is, who had previously litigated against Suter master because of certain allegations in the same affair, and the Master Suter now through negative mentions the book.
Suter Master opens his book with the chapter splendor and misery of Expertise ( pp. 35-124 ), and the cases of the Michael Servetus, Marcel Elcy, BALLEYDIER - Truffet, Jean Calas, Jean Paul Sirven, Jean -François Lefebvre, chevalier de la Barre Thomas Arthur de Lally - Tollendal touches; most cases are designed to attack the " Calvinist morality" in Geneva, according to Suter champion also in the 20th century to the wrongful conviction of Maria Popescu (pp. 40-47, chapter subtitled " the absent-minded professor "; coroner François Naville is meant ) and Pierre Jaccoud (p. 47-124, chapter subtitled " the affair that was not " ) is said to have performed. Other cases are briefly mentioned in this part, the cases Boricky - Guedj, Josette Bauer, Paul Stauffer, village priest Edalji, Pierre Leroy and Jean Fauvel are.
The largest part (p. 124-707 ) of the book is titled On the Genealogy of miscarriage of justice: The Hirschberg test. Suter master it is divided according to the six most important " causes of wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system " by Max Hirsch 's book The miscarriage of justice in criminal proceedings (1960 ), but in a different order, and a further three " causes of wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system ," adds: Eingeleisige preliminary investigation, suggestibility and logic sense of the jury / psychological error of the judges, and bad decisions in the field of " public morals ".
The tenth part of his " Hirschberg test " is entitled Law and Ethics: Jesus, Socrates and Marx, Master Suter discusses the cases of Frank Geerk ( blasphemy ) and Jacques Isorni ( who was accused in 1974 because of his book The true process of Jesus). The eleventh and final part of " Hirschberg test " is titled The Law and the progress of the humanities and natural sciences, and treat cases Galileo, Bruno, Darwin, Freud, Teilhard de Chardin, Marx, Dante, Scopes and Kinsey.
After this main part ( the " Hirschberg test") follow right Philosophical Conclusions and practical proposals for reform with special reference to the German and Swiss legal system (pp. 707-726 ). In the summary (p. 727-747; supplement to the ". . Law on the establishment of a Federal Criminal Police Office ( BKA ) From March 8, 1951, in the version of 29 June 1973" ) Suter master proposes the institutionalization of a BKA for Switzerland to the model of the German Federal Criminal Police Office before, which was not realized until today. In the Appendix (pp. 748-799 ) to find the single evidence of which involve some detailed comments on other cases, including Suter master case against Pierre Hegg, 1960 sought a libel suit against him.
Reception
Earlier Suter Master activism was as a " miscarriage of justice fighter " both praised and blamed. In Summa iniuria especially the part of wrong decisions in the field of " public morals " by Klaus people, Wolfgang Lorenz and Otto Scrinzi was criticized for his tangled political content. Characteristic is the book that Suter Master includes cases " in which he, without that there has been a judicial amendment of the judgment which takes defectiveness " and therefore in some cases " deliberately takes the subjective point of view of the defender ."
For the experts in criminal law Karl Peters Summa iniuria occupies " an important place " in the series of works of miscarriage of justice by Erich Sello, Max Alsberg, Albert Hellwig, Hirschberg, Judex and Peters himself. For Karl Peters, it is amazing how Suter master in his Summa iniuria " dominated the treated material in the international literature and how he understands it convincingly be supplemented by own material from Switzerland and Germany. Important criminal cases are presented in captivating ways. This involves the author but not for sensation, but a factual discussion. " Partly because of Summa iniuria called Karl Peters Suter champion, along with Frank Arnau and Günter Weigand, a " fierce fighter for the right. "
Output
- Summa iniuria - A Pitaval of miscarriages of justice: five hundred cases of human error in the area of justice in criminal and social psychological perspective. Basel: Elfenau, 1976 (810 pages); and Berne: Swiss National Library, 2011 ISBN 978-3-226-00096-2.