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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 217

Except in the case provided for in Article 196, the parties' lawyers are notified of the judgments within three days by registered letter. In the same way and within the same time limits, the parties…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-21

The data used by the software covered by this chapter may only come from the judicial proceedings documents already held by the departments mentioned in article 230-20. When data is used which may ind…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-23

…l'Informatique et des Libertés by the aforementioned loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978, the processing of personal data is carried out under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor, who may re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Holding of meetings

Article 234-1

Where the chief town of the department in which the assizes are held is not the seat of a judicial court, the judicial court referred to in articles 242,251,261-1,262,263,265,266,270,271 and 289 is th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 258-1

Excluded from or struck off the annual list of jurors and the special list of alternate jurors are those who have served as jurors in the department for less than five years. A moral objection of a se…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 261

…up the preparatory list for the annual list, publicly draws by lot from the electoral roll a number of names three times the number set by the prefectoral decree for the constituency. For the purposes…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Compulsory acts

Article 270

…cused is at large or fails to appear, he may be tried in absentia in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VIII of this Title. Where the accused is at large, however, the date of the hearing at wh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Formation of the jury

Article 298

When the Assize Court rules at first instance, the accused may not challenge more than four jurors and the public prosecutor may not challenge more than three. On appeal, the accused may not challenge…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Closure of debates and reading of questions

Article 352

If a contentious incident arises in relation to the questions, the court shall rule in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 316.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Deliberations of the Assize Court

Article 357

Each of the magistrates and jurors is given, for this purpose, an open ballot paper, marked with the stamp of the Assize Court and bearing these words: "On my honour and in my conscience, my declarati…

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