Ivushkina Olga Viktorovna Nazyrova Natalia Aleksandrovna

It is stated that the prosecutor is authorized by the state to carry out criminal prosecution and bear the burden of proving guilt in the judicial stages of criminal proceedings in cases of public and private-public prosecution, as well as, where provided, in cases of private prosecution. Collection of evidence for its further presentation to the court, meeting the requirements for the evaluation of evidence, which in its totality substantiate the accusation, is the responsibility of the subject of investigation. In criminal cases investigated in the form of a preliminary investigation, such subjects are the investigator and the head of the investigative body. The study notes that the prosecutor, when he receives a criminal case with an indictment, is not bound, as one of the participants of the prosecution, by the position taken by the body of preliminary investigation. He is impartial in his assessments and critical of the investigator’s conclusions. It is determined that in the process of realization by the prosecutor of the supervisory function in the study of the criminal case with indictment from the point of view of their legality and validity, his internal conviction about the guilt of the person brought to criminal responsibility is formed. The conclusion is formulated that the choice of the final decision made by the prosecutor in a criminal case with an indictment depends on a number of factors, among which one of the key factors is the absence of obstacles to the consideration of the case on the merits and the rendering of a just decision.

prosecutor, criminal prosecution, indictment, additional investigation, evaluation of evidence, misapplication of criminal law, qualification of a crime

Ivushkina Olga Viktorovna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, East-Siberian Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (110, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-9183-3184, РИНЦ AuthorID: 848836, SPIN-код: 6157-3489, e-mail: grigorievao86@mail.ru

Nazyrova Natalia Aleksandrovna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Head of the Department of Organization and Methods of Criminal Prosecution, Irkutsk Law Institute (branch) of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (1, Shevtsov st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0001-1390-0951, РИНЦ AuthorID: 1007536, SPIN-код: 4238-7024-3489, e-mail: n.nazyrova38@mail.ru

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