English Translation

6 - £ - a second official with higher education in the same trial. The establishment of the prosecutors would have been so good that it would be possible to have the prosecution represented in political trials by officials of the police, who were similarly trained, and only in particularly difficult cases to appoint lawyers to carry out the indictment. In addition, the existing lack of legal guardians should very soon force the officials now working at the prosecutor's office to release them for other tasks, such as senior police or judicial and general administration. Klattauer's officials have said that the use of security police personnel is an admirable acceleration of the procedure and that the scope of the political process could be better overlooked by them than by certain experts. 4.) On the part of the lawyers, it was stated that the general introduction of the prosecution in political proceedings by members of the security police would result in an upsurge and extension of the legal activity: the legal evaluation would be reduced to a greater extent than before to his actual task of being mediator between the defendant and the court and to support the court in the legal examination of the substance put forward by the prosecution authority. On the other hand, however, the fear was expressed that the lawyers' activities in political trials had now ended, as the security police allegedly had no understanding of their work. 5.) As far as the appointment of members of the security police with the indictment was rejected, the main argument was that this would no longer guarantee the independence of the courts. A Prague lawyer from the German Charles University, for example, declared that he considered this measure to be not legally politically responsible; the old principle that police and prosecutors should be different from each other had contributed significantly to the strengthening of the independence of the courts;