PERAN SAKSI AHLI FORENSIK DALAM PROSES PENYIDIKAN KASUS DUGAAN MALPRAKTEK (STUDI KASUS ABORTUS DI KOTA LANGSA - PROVINSI ACEH)

NETTY HERAWATI (2021) PERAN SAKSI AHLI FORENSIK DALAM PROSES PENYIDIKAN KASUS DUGAAN MALPRAKTEK (STUDI KASUS ABORTUS DI KOTA LANGSA - PROVINSI ACEH) , TESIS, UNIVERSITAS PRIMA INDONESIA

ABSTRAK

Abstract
In addition to being medical personnel, doctors are also required to provide assistance to law enforcers to reveal and find material truths in criminal cases, the source of legal material is in Article 184 of the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP), namely expert statements can be used as evidence valid in front of a court session, classified into evidence of the Visum et Repertum letter to be a substitute for evidence. By using the normative juridical legal research method, it is a legal research that limits the existing norms in the legislation. From a juridical point of view, every doctor is an expert, whether the doctor is an expert in judicial medicine or not, therefore every doctor can be asked for assistance to help clarify a criminal case by the competent authority. The results of the study show that the role of expert witnesses, especially expert witnesses in the field of Forensics in determining suspected cases of malpractice, especially allegations of malpractice abortion in Langsa City, states that the cause of patient death in surgery was not due to an object left behind and could not be retrieved at that time, but death was the bleeding that does not stop, has warded off and denied the public opinion which considers that malpractice has not been proven legally, thus the investigator has the right to stop the investigation by issuing a Notification of Termination of Investigation (SP3).
It is recommended that forensic specialists be given a special room to provide explanations (no longer confidential) for their work, so that public opinion that always thinks malpractice has occurred.

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