Innovation of procedural legislation, or new stage of development of assistance to justice

Introduction: in the article the procedural status of a new participant of criminal proceedings - the person against whom criminal case is allocated in separate production in connection with plea agreement - is analyzed. Shortcomings of a legal design of procedural rule are revealed. The author of the article pays special attention to the impact of this participant of legal proceedings on criminal procedure institute of assistance to justice. Materials and Methods: the methodological base of the research was the dialectic method of scientific knowledge, historical, logical, comparative and legal, statistical methods and also observation and other private methods of research of legal phenomena. Results: in the article on the basis of studying the acting criminal procedure legislation, decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, scientific research it is offered to make a number of changes to the norm regulating the procedural status of the person concerning which a criminal case is allocated in separate production in connection with the conclusion with it the pre-trial agreement about cooperation (Article 56...