The question of the role of the expert in Russian criminal procedure legislation

this article discusses some problematic issues about the role of an expert in the russian criminal procedure legislation at the pre-trial and trial stages and ways to solve them in the criminal procedure law of the russian federation. the analysis of the problematic issues of the production and appointment of examinations, the use of the expert’s opinion as evidence was carried out, possible ways of solving them were proposed. materials and methods: the normative basis for the study of the role of an expert in criminal procedure legislation was formed by the criminal procedure law and local regulatory legal acts of the russian federation. the methodological basis of the study is the dialectical method of cognition of social phenomena and processes, as well as the methods of logical deduction, cognition, comparison, systematic approach, analysis, generalization and description. the results of the study: allowed to reflect the problematic issues that arise in practical and scientific activities due to the flaws in the criminal procedure legislation in the field of the institute of expert research as one of the types of evidence in russian criminal proceedings. findings and conclusions: in the field of practice and scientific research in the field of using expert research as a type of evidence, a number of problematic issues arise due to shortcomings in the criminal procedure law. it is proposed to make additions and some changes to the code of criminal procedure of the russian federation in terms of the production of expert examinations and the use of expert studies as a type of evidence.