Issues of Abbreviated Trial Application in Albania

Except the normal criminal procedure, the Albanian criminal procedure recognizes and provides the alternative trials rituals, or the alternative trial procedures, like the case of judging the case through an abbreviated trial. It must be underlined that “special trial†notion provided for an abbreviated trial is exactly referred to the cases of avoiding the rules of Criminal Procedure Code provided for an ordinary way of judgment. The procedure of abbreviated trial fundamentally consists in leaving the normal proceeding way of an ordinary trial, as this procedure of judicial examination is interrupted because of the request submitted by the defendant. In this paperwork some of issues encountered during the abbreviated trial will be treated theoretically and practically. A special importance will be given to specifying the subjects who can submit a request for abbreviated trial, the procedural moment of presenting this request. The way of presenting the request for an abbreviated trial and the considerations upon granting consent by the prosecutor will also be analyzed.