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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Appeals

Article D46

When the criminal appeals chamber issues a committal order with deferred effect, the public prosecutor has the same prerogatives as the public prosecutor. If the date set for incarceration is brought…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Individual cell confinement

Article D94

In accordance with the dispositions de l'article D. 213-2 du code pénitentiaire, lorsqu'il suspend l'encellulement individuel d'une personne détenue en raison de sa personnalité, le chef de l'établiss…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article D33

When an investigating judge issues a letter rogatory to a judicial police officer in charge of a police service or gendarmerie unit, the latter may have it executed by a judicial police officer under…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Judicial restraint

Article D569

When the public prosecutor finds that the person has paid in full the amount of the day fines imposed, he or she shall order that the imprisonment served pursuant to Article 762 and that the portion o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D8

Within the framework of the legislative and regulatory texts or interministerial agreements in force:1°The national police and the national gendarmerie shall endeavour to organise and implement the co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Rules governing pre-trial detention

Article D58

In accordance with the dispositions de l'article D. 213-4 du code pénitentiaire, dans les maisons d'arrêt où, par suite de la distribution des locaux ou de leur encombrement temporaire, le régime de l…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Management of prisoners' property

Article D339

In accordance with the dispositions de l'article D. 332-7 du code pénitentiaire, le chef de l'établissement pénitentiaire donne connaissance à l'autorité judiciaire des sommes d'argent ou objets trouv…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article D14

The judicial police officers listed in Article 20 have jurisdiction to record all crimes, offences or contraventions and to draw up a report. In addition, they may carry out preliminary investigations…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Medical and medical-psychological examinations.

Article D17

When assessing the appropriateness of requesting or ordering the investigations and examinations referred to in Article D. 16, the judicial authorities shall take the utmost account of, in particular:…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Granting of reductions in sentences under article 721

Article D116

For the application of the provisions of article 721 relating to sentence reductions, the Sentence Enforcement Commission examines the sentenced person's situation at least once a year, even ex offici…

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