Author

Muravyev M.V.

Title of article

THE URGENCY OF REFORMING THE CRIMINAL
PROCEDURAL LAW OF EVIDENCE

Section

Section 11. The problems of legal science and law enforcement practice: young researchers’ view

Issue, year

2 (44) 2018

Abstract

Possible variants of reforming the criminal procedural law of evidence in Russia are analyzed in the article. one of them is connected with the optimization and modernization of the existing investigative model of criminal procedure proving. Another one, presented in the form of a doctrinal model developed at the nizhny novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, provides
for the rejection of the postulates of the Soviet procedural theory and the reform of the preliminary investigation. The key thesis of the doctrinal model is admitting the accusation confirmed in the criminal
court as a ground for criminal liability. only in court the proving of the grounds for bringing to criminal liability is carried out. According to the author’s opinion, independent judiciary and a fair trial are impossible
without institutional reform of pre-trial proceedings. Basing on a number of provisions of the nizhny novgorod doctrine of criminal judicial evidence, the author’s position concerning the means of proving,
technology of proving and subjects of proving including the parties and the judge is formulated. one of the arguments given by the author in favor of the adversarial model of forming the criminal procedural
evidence is connected with digital technologies which make the investigative guarantees of reliability, admissibility of the information used as a means of proving the parties’ statements useless.

Keywords

criminal procedure; proving; evidence; proof theory.

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