Discussion On The Publicity Of Judge's Mental Impression In Criminal Procedure Law

The publicity of judge's mental impression is core requirement of judgment publicity principle. Its function is, through disclosing judge's mental impression in lawsuit, to prevent possible arbitrariness of judge in the process of judgment and thereby protect the procedure of the party concerned and entity interest as well as further realize justice and effectiveness of lawsuit. At present, in China's theory field, the publicity system of judge's mental impression is not systematically studied, and the related legislation also belongs to the blank. In the administration of justice field, failure publicity of judge's mental impression or incomplete publicity of judge's mental impression often occurs, this seriously harms prestige of court and citizen's confidence on judicial justice. Therefore, highly attaching importance to the publicity of judge's mental impression and establishing and perfecting judge's mental impression publicity system tallying with the national conditions are imminent.The paper talks on the publicity of judge's mental impression of Liu Yong Case, preliminarily studies the publicity of judge's mental impression in criminal prosecution, points out that the publicity of judge's mental impression is core of publicity principle of judgment and a kind of judgment publicity in material meaning, further defines publicity significance of judge's mental impression and performance condition and principle, builds and perfects publicity system of national mental impression on the basis of using foreign related system for reference.