The Destiny of Physical Evidence

Abstract to the final qualifying work on the topic: "the Legal fate of physical evidence". The work includes: 151 pages, 1 Appendix, 131 sources. The work consists of the introduction, two chapters (the first Chapter includes 4 paragraphs, the second Chapter-three paragraphs), conclusion and bibliography. The introduction substantiates the relevance of the research, its goals, tasks, scientific novelty of the work, formulates the main hypotheses that will be confirmed or disproved in the course of the study, describes the structure and the content of the work. The first Chapter is devoted to: the history of the institute of physical evidence, the analysis of the legislation, positions of scientists concerning the content of the concept of physical evidence, varieties of evidence, rules of collection, verification and evaluation of the physical evidence in criminal proceedings. The second Chapter describes the procedure for storing physical evidence and determining the legal fate of physical evidence on the basis of departmental acts and materials of judicial practice. Keywords: physical evidence, criminal proceedings, storage of physical evidence, legal fate of physical evidence. The subject of the research is the institute of physical evidence, practical problems of resolving the legal fate of physical evidence in a criminal case, and relevant departmental acts regulating these issues. The purpose of the work is to analyze the institute of physical evidence and its legal fate in criminal proceedings, to generalize the judicial practice on the issue in question in order to identify the main problems found in modern law enforcement practice. Based on the results of the study, proposals and recommendations were made to improve the current legislation in terms of determining the legal fate of physical evidence.