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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Clarifying the encrypted data needed to establish the truth

Article 230-4

Decisions taken pursuant to this chapter shall not be of a judicial nature and shall not be subject to appeal.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-39

The judicial police officer or agent acting under his or her responsibility shall describe or transcribe, in a report which shall be placed in the file, the recorded data which are useful for establis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-36

The examining magistrate or the judicial police officer appointed by him or authorised by the public prosecutor may request any qualified agent of a service, unit or body placed under the authority of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-41

The person under investigation or the witness may, within ten days of being informed of the content of the geolocation operations carried out within the framework provided for in article 230-40, conte…

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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
Section 3: The decision on the civil action

Article 375-2

Persons convicted of the same crime shall be jointly and severally liable for restitution and damages. In addition, the court may, by special reasoned decision, order that an accused person who has su…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Compulsory acts

Article 272-1

If the accused, after having been summoned through administrative channels to the assize court registry, fails to appear, without legitimate excuse, on the day set for questioning by the assize court…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-21

An appeal against the decisions of the departmental criminal court shall be heard by the assize court under the conditions laid down in subtitle I of this title for appeals against judgments handed do…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-22

For the purposes of the provisions relating to legal aid, the departmental criminal court is treated in the same way as the assize court.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 385-2

As regards civil interests, the court, after giving the parties notice to conclude on the merits, shall rule in one and the same judgment on the objection of inadmissibility and on the merits of the d…

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