Abstract:
During criminal procedure, the confession have diverse functions and most judicial officers think it is the foundation of criminal cases. However, in Chinese judicial practice, the accused lies so casually and there are so many false statement of the accused that it decreases the efficiency of proceeding and results in injustices. As for the legal responsibility of false statement of the accused, the legal standard is vague and absent. Based on the first criminal judgment papers from June 2016 to June 2017, this paper research Chinese current situation of the false statement of the accused from aspects of the time of false statement, the motive, joint offenders and legal responsibility and makes further research on if the legal responsibility of false statement should be pursued, how to pursue the legal responsibility of false statement and procedure value.