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17 Yale J. Int'l L. 1 (1992)
The New Italian Code of Criminal Procedure: The Difficulties of Building an Adversarial Trial System on a Civil Law Foundation

handle is hein.journals/yjil17 and id is 9 raw text is: The Yale Journal of International Law Volume 17, Number 1, Winter 1992 Articles The New Italian Code of Criminal Procedure: The Difficulties of Building an Adversarial Trial System on a Civil Law Foundation William T. Pizzit and Luca Marafiotif I. INTRODUCTION: THE NEED FOR REFORM IN ITALY .......................... 3 A. The History of the Former Code .................................... 3 B. Italy's Pressing Need for Efficiency .................................. 5 II. THE ITALIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ................................ 7 A. The Civil Law Paradigm .......................................... 7 B. An Introduction to the New Italian Code of Criminal Procedure ................ 10 III. COPING WITH JUDICIAL BACKLOG: U.S. AND ITALIAN ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM 15 A. The U.S. Solution: Acceptance of a System of Negotiation and Compromise ....... 16 B. The Proposed Italian Solution: The Special Procedures of the New Code ......... 17 C. Procedures That Avoid a Preliminary Hearing: Giudizio Direttissimo and Giudizio Imme- diato .................................................. 18 1. Giudizio Direttissimo ...................................... 18 2. Giudizio Immediato ....................................... 20 D. Three Alternatives to Tial ........................................ 20 1. Proceeding by Penal Decree ................................... 20 2. Italian Plea Bargaining ....................................... 21 3. Giudizio Abbreviato ....................................... 23 IV. THE DIIICULTIES OF IMPLEMENTING THE CODE: A NEW SYSTEM CAUr-rr BETWEEN Two TRADITIONS ................................................. 27 A. Leading Horses to Water: Incentives to Use the Special Procedures ............ 27 t Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law; Visiting Professor, Facolt di Giurisprudenza, Universitk di Perugia, 1990-1991. t Ricercatore confermato, Facolth di Giurisprudenza, II UniversitA di Roma-Tor Vergata.