Judicial precedent in criminal proceedings: rejecting stereotypes and illusions

The attention of legal science to the issue of sources of law does not weak. Among such sources, judicial precedent, including all judicial practice, is consistently considered. The debate on the need to «legalize» the precedent in Russia, to transfer it from atypical sources of law to typical ones does not stop. Opposing views are expressed: the precedent is categorically rejected or, on the contrary, it is extolled. The purpose of the article is to conduct a comparative legal study of the understanding of judicial precedent in different states in the context of sources of law, rejecting in this regard stereotypes and illusions in the interpretation of judicial precedent as a source of criminal procedure law. Research methods: historical, comparative-legal, logical.