With this article, the author continues the cycle of his publications devoted to the problems of proof in pre-trial proceedings in a criminal case. The article considers one of the most controversial procedural methods of establishing the circumstances that are important for a criminal case - forensic examination. The most common methods of collecting evidence in pre-trial proceedings are compared: forensic examination and investigative actions. Its essential features are consistently identified and analyzed, which predetermine its special character and special place in the general system of cognitive techniques that are in the arsenal of the preliminary investigation bodies. As such signs stand out: a) the need to use special knowledge; b) mandatory involvement of an expert as a special participant in criminal procedural relations; c) the need for research and the formulation of expert conclusions; d) complicated criminal procedure form; e) formation of a special means of criminal procedural proof - an expert opinion. Separately, attention is drawn to the rather serious procedural capabilities of an expert, which resemble not so much the rights of participants in criminal proceedings provided for in Ch. 8 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, how many jurisdictional powers of the preliminary investigation bodies and the court It has been suggested that the opportunity given to the expert to assess the actual soundness of the objects of research and their aggregate sufficiency for formulating certain conclusions, likens him to a kind of scientific judge, that is, the role that the famous German scientist K. Mittermeier predicted more than 150 years ago ... The forensic examination is defined as a very original, to a certain extent even a unique procedural technology aimed at establishing (proving) the circumstances that are important for a criminal case.

expert opinion, collecting evidence, special knowledge, forensic examination, criminal procedural proof, expert

Rossinsky Sergey Borisovich - Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law, Moscow State Law University named after O. E. Kutafina (Moscow State Law Academy) (9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya st., Moscow, 125993, Russian Federation), e-mail: s.rossinskiy@gmail.com

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