Crime Witnessed In Iraqi Law

Abstract

The witnessed crime is a material fact that occurs in different and varied circumstances and that the crime witnessed or flagrante delicto is two expressions of one meaning that achieves the crime witnessed by either of them, where there is a temporal convergence between the achievement of the materiality of the crime, the act and the result or the act only, and the realization of these materials with one of the senses, the law has allowed to take a number of necessary measures, which in fact are judicial acts originally belonging to investigators and investigating judges granted to members of the judicial control, which is a non-judicial body to practice them as an exception In cases of a flagrant crime because it constitutes a violation of the usual rules, its treatment requires a set of procedural rules that differ from those in force in the case of an unwitnessed crime.