graduate student from 01.01.2024 until now
UDK 343.13 Уголовно-процессуальное право
The scientific article is devoted to the consideration of procedural guarantees of the full evidential significance of an expert opinion. The study raises a number of problems that determine the current attitude in practice to an expert opinion as evidence of less legal force compared to other types of evidence. Among the reasons for this approach is not only the unsurmounted accusatory bias, but also the imperfection of thecriminal procedure legislation, which, on the one hand, allows non-powerful participants in the proceedings to receive an expert opinion, and on the other hand, considers only officials conducting criminal proceedings as subjects of collecting evidence (the right of the defense attorney to collect evidence, as specified in the law,is only a terminological tribute to the principle of adversarial proceedings). Based on the conducted research, the author draws conclusions about the need to modernize the norms of criminal procedure legislation in terms of ensuring guarantees of the full evidential significance of an expert opinion, which is a full-fledged independent evidence in a criminal case. At the same time, the author proceeds from the fact that only officials conducting criminal proceedings have the right to collect evidence. However, this does not deprive the nonpower representatives of the parties of the right to obtain a specialist opinion and present it to the court, investigator, or inquiry officer, who have the right to refuse to satisfy the petition only if the information provided is irrelevant to the circumstances to be established.
procedural guarantees, preliminary investigation, defense, defense lawyer, expert opinion, petition, criminal proceedings
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