REQUESTING ITEMS AND DOCUMENTS BY DEFENSE PARTY: PROCEDURAL REGISTRATION

Andrii KRUSHENYTSKYI

KRUSHENYTSKYI A. (2022), REQUESTING ITEMS AND DOCUMENTS BY DEFENSE PARTY: PROCEDURAL REGISTRATION; Scientific Bulletin of Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affair, Special Issue №2, 414-424

DOI: 10.31733/2078-3566-2022-6-414-424

 

ABSTRACT. The article highlights problematic issues related to the defense’s use of such a method of gathering evidence in criminal proceedings as the demand and receipt of things and documents. Considered issues: regarding subjects to whom the demand of the defense party for the provision of things and documents may be made and from whom they may be received; the form and content of the demand for the recovery of things and documents of the defense party (that is, its procedural design); deadlines for fulfilling the requirement and the legal consequences of the refusal (evasion) of the subject owner of the relevant items and documents to satisfy the requirement; a form for recording the demand for things and documents by the defense; procedural possibilities and the mechanism of requisitioning things and documents from the suspect (accused).

The author has formulated proposals to improve certain provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine in order to eliminate problematic issues in criminal proceedings that arise when the defense uses the specified method of gathering evidence. According to Art. 93 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, one of the ways for the defense to collect evidence is to demand and receive from state authorities, local self-government bodies, enterprises, institutions, organizations, officials and individuals items, copies of documents, information, expert conclusions, audit conclusions, acts of inspections. However, in practice, defense parties constantly have problems with the implementation of their powers in terms of demanding information, copies of documents and things that arise in connection with unjustified refusals. First of all, this is due to the fact that the current Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine does not provide methods and procedures, using which the defense party can exercise the above mentioned powers. In this regard, today there is an urgent need for a more detailed regulation of obtaining evidence in accordance with Art. 93 of the CCP of Ukraine.

Keywords: requisition and receipt of things and documents, method of gathering evidence, form of requisition, defense side.

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