A False Promise of Fair Trials: A Case Study of China's Malleable Criminal Procedure Law
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Lan, Rongjie
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China revised its Criminal Procedure Law in 1996 adopting an adversarial-style trial model and granting remarkable procedural safeguards to the accused. Many have been tempted to conclude that this new law is capable of ensuring fair trials for criminal defendants and thus could improve China's record of human rights protection.