PERANAN KETERANGAN AHLI KEDOKTERAN JIWA DALAM MENENTUKAN PERTANGGUNGJAWABAN PIDANA (Studi Di Pengadilan Negeri Klas IA Padang)

Abstract

Not all cases of crimes committed by someone whose spirit is healthy, sometimes carried out by someone who has a mental disorder. If the judge experiencing uncertainty about the state of mind of the defendant, the judge requires expert witnesses by asking the help of a specialist psychiatric mental state of the accused to examine in order to determine criminal responsibility. Expert testimony is evidence both in Article 184 Criminal Procedure Code. Expert witness is a person who has the knowledge and experience to give testimony in court. In this case that an expert witness is a psychiatric expert. The problem in this thesis: 1). How does the role of expert psychiatric testimony in determining criminal responsibility in the State Court Class IA Champaign? 2). How the power of expert psychiatric testimony in determining criminal responsibility in the State Court Class IA Champaign? The approach used in this research is the socio-legal research. Research data includes primary and secondary data. Data collection techniques used were interviews and document study. Data were analyzed qualitatively. The results of the research are: 1). The role of expert psychiatric testimony in determining criminal responsibility is as valid evidence because medical experts testified appropriate psychiatric expertise in order to make light of a crime to convince a judge to make a decision. 2). Psychiatric expert testimony has complete and perfect power in exposing criminal liability.
Keywords: Role, Expert, Accountability, Criminal