Investigatory experiment is needed quite often.In most cases, it is used at a time when it is necessary to test empirically the data obtained during the investigation of the criminal case.
Investigatory experiment
Forensics uses it for a long time.Over the years it has evolved and changed.By itself, the investigative experiment - is not nothing but a procedural act, carried out in order to verify the collected information and data that are important to a criminal investigation.This experiment was conducted by reconstructing the circumstances and the situation of the accident.Investigatory experiment provided 181st Article Code.Note that in some cases such a check of the collected materials is a must.
Types investigative experiment.The main objective is, in most cases overlap:
- installation sequence committed criminal acts;
- reveal the mechanisms that led to the appearance of traces of the crime;
- determining whether really the crime was committed in the circumstances;
- confirmation of the fact that it is the accused committed the crime.
Actually investigative experiments are not so often.
Investigatory experiment may be appointed at the initiative of the investigator, victim or some other party to the criminal proceedings.In some cases the experimental results not only help to confirm, but also to obtain some new information.Often it turns out that the suspect did not act alone, and in collusion with someone.To extradite him may lack some specific skills, the inability to commit any action alone, and so on.
Investigatory experiment can be carried out under the following conditions:
- should not be disturbed public order;
- recreates the atmosphere should be possible to match the one that was at the time the crime was committed;
- participants in the experiment should not be subjected to humiliation, and their lives should not be anything to threaten;
- suspect must give written consent to participate.
In some cases, the situation is changing especially - it helps establish the fact whether the suspect committed a crime (it happens that people, for whatever reasons, slander to themselves).
timeliness of the investigative experiment is one of the factors of its success.When procrastination there is a possibility that at the scene there will be any change, the suspect will forget any important details or even refuse to cooperate with the investigation.
Investigatory experiment in itself is a complex and time-consuming.That is why it resorted to only in cases when it is impossible to check all the data through the interrogation, search and so on.
As a rule, special investigative experiment involving witnesses.Best of all, if they have any psychophysical and professional knowledge - it will help them understand the meaning of what is happening.In most cases, this kind of experiments are utilized more than two witnesses.Sometimes they are used as employees of the inquiry.If you need to be invited to the special psychologists or other professionals.
The investigative experiment should be involved and attorneys face.They can be a victim, a witness.
defendant shows he produced at the time the crime was committed acts or plays understudy.The victim in the immediate reconstruction of the events involved rare.
