declarations.
ART 332: When the accused disrupts the hearing in any manner whatsoever, the president shall order
that law enforcement should remove him/her from the courtroom.
Upon being removed from the courtroom, the accused shall be kept by law enforcement until
the end of the proceedings, at the disposal of the court; after each hearing, the court registrar shall
read out, to the accused, the record of the proceedings and the submissions of the public prosecutor;
he/shall be given notice of all court rulings handed down against him/her
ART 333: After witnesses have given their testimonies and the respective statements that result
therefrom, the party claiming damages or his/her counsel and the Public Prosecutor shall be heard and
develop the legal arguments on which the prosecution is hinged.
The accused and his/her counsel may respond to them.
The party claiming damages and the public prosecutor shall have the right to reply, but the
accused or his/her counsel shall always speak last.
Section IV - End of Proceedings and Reading of Questions
ART 334: The president shall declare that proceedings have ended. He/she may summarise the legal
arguments raised by the prosecution and the defence.
ART 335: The president shall read out the questions that the court has to answer. This reading shall
not be compulsory when the questions are asked according to the referral order or if the accused or
his/her counsel waive it.
ART 336: Questions arising from the referral order or proceedings shall be asked distinctly and
successively, first on the main issue, and where applicable, on each of the issues related to legal
excuse, eventually on the issue of judgement and lastly on the issue of mitigating circumstances that
the president will have to ask every time the guilt of the accused is acknowledged.
ART 337: If the proceedings reveal one or several mitigating circumstances not mentioned in the
referral order, the president may add the following question: "Did the accused commit this crime with
any one of these circumstances?"
ART 338: When the accused proposes, as an excuse, an act acknowledged as an excuse by the law,
the president shall have to ask the following question: Is this act constant?"
ART 339: If the proceedings show that act is otherwise described under the law than as stated in the
referral order, the president shall have to ask one or several subsidiary questions.
ART 340: If a contentious incident is raised regarding the questions asked during the hearing, the court
shall rule subject to the conditions provided for in article 304.
ART 341: When questions have been asked, before the court of assizes withdraws, the president shall
have the accused removed from the courtroom. He/she shall call on the head of the security
department to have the doors of the deliberations room watched. No unauthorised person shall enter
this room for any reason whatsoever.
The president shall declare the hearing suspended.
CHAPTER VI - JUGDEMENT
Section I - Deliberation of the Court of Assizes
ART 342: Magistrates and assessors shall withdraw into the deliberations room.
They shall come out only after each has taken their respective decisions.
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