Legal analysts note that Chinese courts look favorably on admissions of guilt during sentencing, a credo summed up in the phrase 'leniency for those who confess; severity for those who resist.'
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第五,沉默权制度可以和中国的传统刑事政策有机结合,做到“坦白从宽、沉默无罪、抗拒从严”;
Fifth, the right to silence can combine organically with China's traditional criminal policy, achieves "confess leniently, silence innocently, resistance severely".
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在我国建立沉默权制度不应否定“坦白从宽、抗拒从严”的政策,而应当允许沉默,鼓励坦白。
In China, the policy of "leniency to those who confess their crimes and severity to those who refuse to" should not be negated while the system of the right of silence is established.