Constitutional and Criminal Procedural Aspects of the Preliminary Chamber

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze a series of implications arising from the preliminary chamber judge’s failure to comply with procedural criminal law provisions regarding the legal or reasonable timeframe for resolving exceptions concerning the legality and fairness of evidence administration in the Romanian criminal process, as well as the return of cases to prosecutors for the resumption of criminal investigations, based on an unjustified interference of the preliminary chamber judges in the constitutional duties of the prosecutors.