The article taking into account the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, substantiates the thesis about the possibility, already at the initial stage of pretrial criminal prosecution of a particular person and the right of such person to defend. It is noted that such a person is an unauthorized participant in the verification actions, but the uncertainty of his procedural status hinders the exercise of his right to defense. On the basis of the analysis of the norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, the author comes to the conclusions: the initiation and implementation of criminal prosecution in connection with the adoption or consideration of a report on a crime contradicts the main provisions of the criminal procedure law; legal regulation that allows, in the absence of sufficient data indicating the signs of a crime, not only to refuse to initiate a criminal case, but also to initiate and prosecute citizens, inconsistent, irrational and dangerous. Proposals on changing the rules of the initial stage of pre-trial proceedings are formulated.
verification of the crime report, criminal prosecution, right to defense
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