title: [Long-term realistically life-threatening disease].
abstract: In this paper the authors discuss a legal code description of a wrongly included (as a result of a legislative error) "long-term really life-threatening disease" (dlugotrwala choroba realnie zagrazajaca zyciu) in the Criminal Code. This category of disease impossible to apply in practice since its terms "long-term" and "realistically life-threatening" are mutually exclusive--is nonetheless applicable to crimes committed from Sept. 1, 1998 to Dec. 8, 2003. In effect this causes a change in the qualification of certain acts in Art. 156 of the Criminal Code, to include those in Art. 157, Paragraph 1, and in some cases, even extending to acts named in Art. 157, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Zakładu Medycyny Sadowej UM, Lodzi. J.Berent@eranet.pl
authors.forename: Jarosław
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Berent
authors.forename: Agnieszka P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Jurczyk
authors.forename: Leszek
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Markuszewski
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Szram
mesh_terms: D003416:Criminal Law / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D011044:Poland; D011050:Policy Making