JUDECĂTORUL MIHAIL C. ARDELEANU ȘI ȘCOALA DONGOROZIANĂ SAU „DISCIPLINA” DREPTULUI PENAL

The topic covered in this study is related to one of the few polemics that took place in the
pages of the Romanian Law Magazine in the ’80s. In Issue 1/1987 of the magazine, Octavian
Cojocaru criticized in the study „Judicial rehabilitation. Application made by the spouse or close
relatives, after the death of the convicted person, before the execution of the sentence” a correct
sentence of the Suceava County Tribunal, pronounced in 1985, in disagreement with the provisions
of the Criminal Code in force at that time and against a decision of the Supreme Tribunal, according
to which the convicted person who had died before the execution of the sentence could no longer be
rehabilitated. Later, in 1988, Valeriu Ciucă, a judge at the same Suceava County Tribunal, published
in the same magazine a critical article related to the case law note signed by Octavian Cojocaru, which shows, with solid arguments, that the decision pronounced by Suceava County Tribunal was
correct from a juridical point of view.