Criminal Procedure Code of the Kyrgyz Republic - Legislationline

Article 308. Retirement of Court to Conference Room to Establish Verdict
On hearing the final statement by the defendant, the court shall immediately retire to the
conference room to render a sentence, the presiding judge (members of the composition of the
court) inform the persons present in the court room on that.
(As edited by the Law KR dated 8 August 2004 #111)
CHAPTER 36. RENDERING VERDICT
Article 309. Rendering Verdict in the Name of the Kyrgyz Republic
The court of the Kyrgyz Republic shall render a verdict in the name of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Article 310. Lawful and Substantiated Verdict
(1) The verdict must be lawful and substantiated.
(2) The verdict shall is deemed lawful, if it is rendered in accordance with all requirements of the
law, and is substantiated on the law.
(3) The verdict is deemed substantiated, if it is rendered based on all-round and objective
examination of the evidence presented to court.
(4) The verdict must be fair.
Article 311. Rendering a verdict
(1) The court shall render the verdict in a separate premises—conference room. Only members
of the composition of the court may be in the room while rendering the verdict. Presence of
back-up judges and other persons is not allowed.
(2) In the night time, and if necessary, during the day, the court has the right to recess. Rendering
verdict shall be also interrupted for days off and holidays.
(3) Period of rendering the verdict must be announced by participants of the process.
(4) During rendering the verdict by the members of the composition of the court all the questions
shall be resolved by simple majority vote. The judge or the associate judge shall not abstain
from voting. The presiding judge shall be the last to vote.
(5) The judge or the associate judge, who has a special opinion, may state it in written form.
Special opinion shall not be announced during the proclamation of the verdict, but it shall be
attached to a case file.
(6) The judge and associate judges shall not be authorized to announce the judgment reasoning
when pronouncing the verdict.
(As edited by the Law KR dated 8 August 2004 #111)
Article 312. Issues Resolved by Court While Rendering Verdict
(1) In rendering verdict, the court shall resolve in the conference room the following issues:
1) whether the act incriminated to the defendant had taken place;
2) whether it is proven that the act was committed by the defendant;