Correlation of electronic information with certain types of evidence in criminal proceedings

The emergence of electronic information in criminal proceedings has defined new tasks for the legislator regulating it in criminally-remedial evidence. The author of the scientific article investigated physical evidence and evidence of “other documents” in relation to electronic information from the theoretical side and from the side of investigative practice. The distinguished features of the two types of evidence and the difference in the evidentiary value of electronic information from electronic media allowed the author to propose an algorithm for determining the place of electronic information in the system of types of evidence due to the fact that electronic information can be presented as one of the traditional evidence physical evidence or another document. Accordingly, algorithmic conditions, the resolution of which will enable the correlation of electronic information with the types of evidence in criminal proceedings under study, are outlined.