QUALIFYING SIGNS OF COERCION TO TESTIFY (PARTS 2–4 OF ARTICLE 302 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION): CURRENT ISSUES
- Authors: Melnikov E.A1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: No 12 (2025)
- Pages: 135-140
- Section: Strengthening of legality and struggle with criminality
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/1026-9452/article/view/355799
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034543X25120141
- ID: 355799
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Abstract
The article is devoted to qualifying types of compulsion to give evidence or coercion of an expert to make a report. The article also discusses certain problematic issues related to the amendments introduced by Federal Law No. 307-FZ of July 14, 2022 to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (in Part 1 of Article 302), as well as analyzes the provisions of Resolution No. 20 of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated June 28, 2022 “On certain judicial issues practice in criminal cases of crimes against justice”. Special attention in the article is paid to the analysis of the ratios of such methods of compulsion to give evidence as other illegal actions, violence, mockery and torture.
About the authors
E. A Melnikov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: evgmelnikov.1985@mail.ru
PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Economic and Financial Investigations of the Higher School of Public Audit Moscow, Russia
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