Legal basis experimentations in court proceedings

The article discusses normative and legal approaches to the regulation of a judicial experiment, which is one of the cognitive and identification techniques provided for by the criminal procedural law, which are aimed at establishing circumstances that are significant for a criminal case and determine the formation of relevant evidence. The doctrinal positions that presumably predetermined the emergence of such approaches are analyzed. © Россинский С. Б., 2024 At the same time, flaws and irregularities are revealed that are inherent in the modern criminal procedural regulation of the judicial experiment; assumptions are made about the reasons for their occurrence and their impact on law enforcement practice is assessed. In conclusion, recommendations are made on the need to cover the issues discussed in the article in the educational and methodological literature, in the comments to the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, as well as within the framework of the implementation of higher and further education programs.