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What Happens After a Statement to the Prosecutor?

Author · Av. Ayşenur Konar, Avukat

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In short

The question of what happens after a statement to the prosecutor says that the statement does not by itself build an acquittal or a conviction. The file may go toward a decision of non-prosecution, further evidence, or an indictment. Which of these was chosen is read from the decision in hand. Without a decision, a route is not treated as chosen. No custody day is stated in this article. If a day is written on the papers, it is read from the papers. If it is not written, it is not invented.

Leaving free does not mean the investigation has ended. An investigation that has not ended does not by itself close a place left silent on the record. A place that has not closed is not written in a petition as a judgment.

The routes of the investigation

A decision of non-prosecution, the gathering of further evidence, and an indictment are separate doors. How the investigation works tells the general course. What is read here is that the statement is not the last sentence of that course. The last sentence is in the decision document. If there is no document, an outcome is not assumed.

A second statement may come onto the agenda for an additional question. The agenda appears by a new summons. Without a summons, a second session is not treated as having happened. A session that is not so treated is not squeezed into the margin of the first record. A record that is not squeezed in does not produce a custody day either.

A measure is a separate decision

Judicial supervision or detention may still be weighed after the statement ends. The weighing is not automatic. The detention record explains that decision. The judicial supervision record explains another face of the measure. The statement record does not stand in for these decisions. A record that does not stand in for them does not carry a custody period either.

If the text of the decision writes the name of the obligation, that name is read. If it does not, an obligation is not assumed. An obligation that was not assumed does not also stand in a petition as a number of days. Service may show from an annotation when the decision reached the person. If there is no annotation, the day of receipt is not invented.

What is not done

Telling the file on social media, trying to build the same sentence with witnesses, and changing the place where evidence sits may each create a further risk. The risk does not write a day into this text. A day that is not written does not mean the statement was an acquittal either. The place where that is not so is the record. The record writes what was said. A sentence that was not said is not treated as added later.

If an addition is visible by a correction annotation, it is visible. If there is no annotation, the addition is treated as absent. An addition treated as absent does not stand in for a custody record. If there is a custody record, the hour and the place on the record are read. Without the record, a day is not filled in.

The record and service

A signature without every page of the statement record having been read does not mean that what was not told has been completed. An incomplete page is not accepted as a full statement. A page that is not accepted is not a decision document either. The decision is served separately. A decision that has not been served is not assumed to have been seen by the person.

A statement at the prosecutor's office explains the session itself. This record separates the route after the session. If the route is a decision of non-prosecution, the reasons of that writing are in that document. If it is an indictment, the limit of the charge is in the indictment. If neither is there, neither is treated as present. Papers that are not so treated are not the source of a custody day.

A document that enters the file after the statement record ends does not by itself change the result of the statement. A result that changes appears by a new decision writing. Without that writing, the first record is not read as a judgment. A judgment that is not so read does not carry a custody day either. A day that is not carried is not added to the margin of the summons. A day that is not added is not in this text. A day that is not there does not mean that leaving free was an acquittal.

Further evidence may be an expert's writing or a camera recording. Saying that it may be does not say which of them stands in this file. The record that stands is marked at the sentence of the statement it debates. Without a mark, the whole statement is not disregarded. A statement that is not disregarded does not stand in for the indictment either. An indictment that does not so stand is served separately. If there is no service annotation, a day is not written as if the annotation were there. A day that is not written is not a shortening of the custody period either. A shortening is not in this article. A period is not discussed while the text of the decision is not there.

What is not written after the statement

A custody day that is not written on the papers is not added to the record. That the office is in Çankaya does not change the prosecutor's office hearing the investigation. That is read from the record. The competent authority comes from the summons and the decision document. The office address does not choose the prosecutor's office.

Conclusion

The course after the statement is specific to the file. There is no promise of acquittal or conviction. A custody day is not frozen in this text. The frame is on the criminal law page. The basis is the Criminal Procedure Code No. 5271.

Legislation

Frequently asked questions

Is there an acquittal once the statement ends?

No. The statement is one step of the investigation. Leaving free does not mean the file has closed. No custody day is stated in this article.

Can another summons come?

A further statement may come onto the agenda for additional evidence. The summons is read from the document. Without the document, a second session is not assumed.

Can there be detention after the statement?

A measure is a separate decision. The statement record does not stand in for a detention decision. No number of days is stated in this text.

Related reading

This article sits under one practice area. The neighbouring guides carry the detail that does not belong in this text.

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Av. Ayşenur Konar

Lawyer on the Ankara Bar Association roll, founder of Konar Hukuk. This text is general information; a specific file is reviewed separately. Author profile · Editorial policy

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