MISREPRESENTATION AND FRAUD IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: CORRELATION OF CONCEPTS, EFFECTS AND PROCEDURAL RESPONSE

The article is devoted to the analysis of such concepts as "misrepresentation" and "fraud" in criminal procedure. The paper differentiates these concepts, analyzes the criminal procedural effects of fraud and misrepresentation, which take place in criminal proceedings, as well as discovers their legal substance and possible impact on the criminal case. The article also determines the correlation between a fraud and abusive misrepresentation within a criminal process. The author proposes the basic forms of criminal procedure response to fraud and misrepresentation brought out within the criminal proceedings. The article highlights the main directions for combating these negative phenomena, provides classification of a set of measures for combating misrepresentation. The author proposes ways of perfection of legislation in order to prevent misleading of the participants of the criminal process and the restoration of rights of persons involved in criminal proceedings, infringed as a result of misrepresentation. The article also focuses on entrapment as a particular form of fraud in the criminal process, indicates negative effects of inadequate information on the implementation of the general principle of legal certainty in criminal proceedings.

fraud, misrepresentation, misleading in criminal procedure, violation of procedural rights, inaccuracy of information, abuse, entrapment, criminal procedure, criminal court procedure, legal certainty, the rule of law

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