Cessation of prosecution: conceptual approaches

Abstract

The criminal trial represents a specific and complex activity that runs under strict rules that are stipulated by the norms of criminal procedural law. As a result of the criminal trial activity from the part of competent bodies with different tasks, appeared the necessity to divide the criminal procedure into more divisions, called steps of the trial, where complex activities separated into 2 important moments of the process, having different procedural forms and subjects, take place. The time evolution of the criminal process allowed to distinguish 3 stages, every single with a structure, evolution and a different reglementation. The first stage is the prosecution that due to its target and function has a special rol in the criminal procedure. The cessation of prosecution, being a criminal procedural law institution and representing the prosecution, is very important in the procedural activity thanks to its specific features that we are trying to explain in this article.