title: Sufficiency of evidence in court decisions in criminal cases: Particular problems
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metadata.value: Sidorova, Nataliia A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Vasilyev, Ilia A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-11-29T21:15:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-11-29T21:15:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-09
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metadata.value: Sidorova, Nataliia A., Ilia A. Vasilyev. 2024. “Sufficiency of evidence in court decisions in criminal cases: Particular problems”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 3: 736–748. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2024.313 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2024.313
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48028
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metadata.value: The article analyzes problems of assessing evidence in criminal cases, in particular, the use
  by courts of such a criterion when assessing the sufficiency of evidence. In the absence of this
  criterion, it is impossible to talk about compliance with the requirements for the sentence and,
  as a consequence, about the legality of the latter. However, the law does not contain objective
  criteria for assessing a sufficient body of evidence to make a decision in a case. The concepts
  of standards of proof and standards of proof in a case developed in the doctrine of criminal
  procedure are currently only theoretical constructs. The article analyzes the positions of the
  courts of appeal, cassation and supervisory instances in assessing evidence. The categories
  under consideration — the totality of evidence, the limits of proof and the sufficiency of evidence
  — are often used in judicial decisions of courts of various instances. Judicial acts containing
  conclusions about evidence, the totality of which is recognized as sufficient to establish
  the guilt of the defendant, often indicate evidence of questionable quality, drawn up and obtained
  in violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, containing
  factual errors. The use by courts of standard formulations about the “sufficiency of the totality
  of evidence”, which is present in all the studied cases, and they are characterized to a greater
  extent by an acceptable quantitative level than a qualitative component, is probably due to the
  fact that in the current criminal procedural legislation there is no necessary definition of the
  concept of “sufficiency”. And as a result, a significant part of judicial acts contain wording that
  is of a standard nature, indicating the need to confirm the court’s conclusions “with the totality
  of evidence examined by the court”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 24-28-00565, “Standards of
  proof in the Russian legal system”, https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-00565.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 15; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evaluation of evidence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sufficiency of evidence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: body of evidence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: standards of proof
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: presumption of innocence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: competitiveness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: validity of decisions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: limits of proof
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sufficiency of evidence in court decisions in criminal cases: Particular problems
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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