Problematic Issues on the Organization of Selecting Person’s Biological Samples for Molecular and Genetic Examination by S. O. Ziubrii

“…The article is focused on the procedure of sampling as a criminal procedural action necessary for the commissioning and carrying out molecular genetic expert examination in the divisions of the Expert Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, namely the establishment and comparison of genetic traits of living and dead persons and unidentified corpses within criminal proceedings and civil cases for establishing or refutation of the fact of paternity. …”
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Forensic Support of Pre-Trial Investigative and Inquiry Agencies’ Activities on Combating Crime by O. O. Yukhno

“…The author has analyzed national criminal procedural legislation, departmental normative and legal base and amendments to them concerning, in particular, introduction of a new position – the expert in criminalistics and the researched direction, as well as the genesis and further development of scientific points of view in regard to theoretical and applied issues of forensic support of the pre-trial investigation and inquiry agencies’ activities in the specified direction, as well as on improving the concept and essence of criminalistics as a science and its role in combating criminal offenses. …”
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Criteria for the admissibility of digital (electronic) evidence in criminal proceedings by V. V. Romaniuk, S. Ye. Ablamskyi

“…The lack of official definition of digital (electronic) evidence and their sources, in contrast to civil and administrative procedural legislation, is among the shortcomings of the current criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine. However, the definitions proposed by the legislator contain shortcomings, in particular, the fixed definitions of digital (electronic) evidence contain an unjustified opposition of related concepts, such as “information”, “data” and “facts”.…”
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