№ 62(8), October, 2010
Public date: 28.10.2010
Archive of journal: Articles count 44, 71 kb
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OVERCOMING OF CONCEALMENT AND EX-TERMINATION OF EVIDENCE
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Concealment is a common form of resistance to the investigative process. The author of the article suggests that each investigator should leave some comments added to the case papers in a form of a reference on the peculiar details concerning the concealment and the reticence of the evidence on the case in order to prevent the colleagues from possible mistakes in the further investigation
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Modern legal experts often underestimate the importance of the crime scene examination. However, even when a crime scene is examined by a coroner the goal of the investigative procedure is not always achieved as in Russian investigative practice the detailed examination is often mistaken for the expertise. In order to study the problems of the investigative examination the author has carried out a thorough analysis of the major stages of the crime scene examination method development in Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics
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ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT AS THE SOURCE OF PROOFS
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The author of this scientific article considers the computer-based document as a container of criminalistically significant information, which can be both orienting and evidentiary. The author also considers the opportunity of presenting computer-based documents to the court without application of paper information-carrying medium, i.e., there exists a possibility of procedural actions commitment directly with the mentioned computer-based document but not with its carrier. As an example, the author quoted an instance that executive officers listed in Article 181 of the Russian Federation Arbitration Procedure Code are entitled to demand and obtain the case from a relevant court of arbitration with the purpose of solving the problem concerning availability of grounds for lodging a protest in the exercise of supervisory powers
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PARTICULARITY OF THE ESTIMATION OF EXPERT'S STATEMENT
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In accordance with the Article 17 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, expert evidence is not of the predetermined force for a detective, an investigator, a prosecutor, a judge and a jury. However, historically it is actually estimated as specific evidence different from the other. As early as before the revolution in Russia a court expert was considered to be a scientific judge. An expert is a judge of the facts whose evidence on the case is not actually estimated along with the other types of evidence
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