One Mistake, Two Nonsenses, and Three Doctrines: Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Case Facts and Evidence

Wang Minyuan, One Mistake, Two Nonsenses, and Three Doctrines: Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Case Facts and Evidence, Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2013.

This book consists of the following six articles on the theory of criminal procedure law: One Mistake, Two Nonsenses, and Three Doctrines: Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Case Facts and Evidence; Reflections on the Theory of the Standard of Criminal Proof; a Revisit of the "Truth" in Law: Supplementary Explanation of the Relevant Issues; On the "Standard of Proof" in Death Penalty Cases and the Revision of the Criminal Procedure Law; the Two Basic Issues of Contemporary Criminal Evidence Law: Also on the New Development of Criminal Evidence Law in China; the Transformation of Criminal Evidence Law in China: an Analysis Based on the Relevant Provisions in the Revised Criminal Procedure Law. These articles are the condensation of his researches on criminal procedure law in the past ten years. Mainly applying scientific research methods and critical writing style, they explore issues relating to case facts and evidence in criminal procedure, conduct in-depth study on the standard of proof in criminal procedure, and, on the basis of criticizing the "the objective truth doctrine" and "the legal truth doctrine"-which have been very popular for a time-put forward the author's own idea about how to improve the criminal evidence system in China, namely the theory of scientific standard of criminal proof. Quoting a large number of classical expositions on the relevant subjects by philosophers and historians, this book is informative and clear in arguments, and is of profound significance to the research and development of the theories of criminal procedural law and criminal evidence law in China. (By Bi Xiaoqing)