证人出庭寥寥无几 最近,笔者走访了几家基层法院。当法官们谈到刑事审判方式改革中遇到的难题时,证人不愿出庭的问题不约而同地成了他们无奈的话题。仅以通州法院为例,今年上半年该院刑庭共审理各类案件93件,其中需要证人出庭的案件有83件,而实际有证人出庭的只有4件。其他一些法院的情况也大致如此。 对此,有人断言,证人不出庭作证的现象,将成为当前刑事审判制度改革的一 Very few witnesses to court Recently, I visited several grass-roots courts. When judges talked about the difficulties encountered in the reform of criminal trial methods, the unwillingness of witnesses to appear in court coincidentally became their helpless topic. In the case of Tongzhou Court alone, in the first half of this year, the court held a total of 93 criminal cases of various kinds, including 83 cases requiring witnesses to appear in court, while only 4 actually witnesses appeared in court. The situation is also true in some other courts. In response, some people have asserted that the fact that witnesses will not testify in court will become one of the reforms in the current criminal trial system