This scientific article covers the relevant aspects of an investigator – criminalist of Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation, both procedural and organizationally – tactical and managerial direction in the field of criminal justice. The author of the scientific article analyzes the norms of the Criminal procedure codex of the Russian Federation, departmental normative legal acts of the General Prosecutor and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and expresses his own judgment; offers measures on improvement of position of some norms of the Criminal procedure codex of the Russian Federation on the studied issues
In the article the problematic issues of evaluation of
expert evidence during his interrogation in the court
have been considered, the scientific literature has been
analysed, the viewpoints of leading forensic scientists
and processualists on this issue have been considered.
The issues of evaluation of the expert evidence remain
relevant and currently under the conditions of
realisation of the adversarial principle of the parties in
the criminal proceeding. In the study, the need to
specify the subject of interrogation of the expert has
been emphasized, as well as the recommendations on
its carrying out in the court session. The suggestions
with regard to optimization of interrogation process of
the expert in court have been expressed, namely the
expert's petition in the court for the advance granting
of the list of questions in the written form and rejection
of questions which do not require the use of special
knowledge and equate the procedural status of the
expert to the status of the witness