23 Jun decree of summons to trial

The decree of summons to judgment is the act by which the p.m. prosecutes citing the accused to appear directly before the Judge Tribunal and is covered by the 'art. 552 c.p.p. .

With this mode of vocatio in ius, being the p.m. to adopt the decree, there is no preventive control mechanism operates a Judge in relation to the merits of, not being provided, indeed, the preliminary hearing stage.

Following the adoption of the decree of citation, the process is attributed to the knowledge of the Court single judge.

The decree of summons must be served on the accused and his counsel least 60 days before the date fixed for the hearing (except in urgent cases where the limit is reduced to 45 days) ed, under penalty of nullity, It must present some certain requirements of Article. 552 c.p.p. .

The decree of direct quote in the judgment is filed, along with the dossier of the investigation, with the secretary of p.m. and it must necessarily be preceded, procedurally, the issuance of the notice of preliminary investigations ex art. 415 twice c.p.p. (the same way as of which the suspect will have already been able to operate the full discovery of documents in the file of the investigation).